HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu (Charles Herrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: More on NFS Export problems
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:18:01 GMT

David Lemson writes
> nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes: 
> >In article <1992Apr8.160553.29408@oceania.com> john@oceania.com (John  
Robison)  
> >writes:
> >> If you add a /etc/exports file to a running NeXT, the easiest thing  
to
> >> do is re-boot the computer. I have tried to figure out which daemons
> >> to run, and tried to remember, but it is really easier to just  
re-boot.
> >/usr/etc/exportfs -a
> He was talking about nfsd and rpc.mountd, probably.  

 not necessarily.

I've changed export information in /etc/exports and then did the following  
on many NeXTs:
	% exportfs -uav
	% exportfs -av

only to have to reboot the NeXT NFS server because the damn
	EXPORTFS
didn't work!!

Now, I don't even think twice. My rule is:
	If you changed /etc/exports ...
1) do exportfs -uav
2) then reboot.
3) no kidding.

	chuck



Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jchin@wcraft.wimsey.bc.ca (Joseph Chin)
Subject: Multiple swap disks
Reply-To: jchin@wcraft.wimsey.bc.ca
Organization: The Wordcraft Group - Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:09:14 GMT

I came across this in NextAnswers os.355 regarding the use of multiple  
swap disks:

> [...] This will enable paging to two files (based on the standard
> configuration of swaptab):
> 
> 	/private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile
> 	/private/vm/swapfile
> 
> This might seem like A Good Thing, but it isn't.  Last we knew, there
> was a (minor?) bug which prevented using multiple swapfiles
> successfully. (The bug is that if a mapped file spans swapfile
> boundaries, not-completely-predictable things can happen.  To tickle the
> bug, though, the primary swapfile must fill up first.) Should be benign,
> really. [...]

Does this still apply to System 2.1/2.2?

Joe

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From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Mach equivalent of cuserid() ??
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:09:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucsbcsl.4084
Reply-To: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Distribution: usa

Does the NeXT have an equivalent of the subroutine cuserid()?  The Sun man page  
describes it as follows:

     cuserid() returns a pointer to  a  string  representing  the
     login  name  under which the owner of the current process is
     logged in.  

Thanks!

--
Douglas Scott                              (805)893-8352
Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
University of California, Santa Barbara
Internet: (NeXTMail ok)   <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tms@twins.lanl.gov (Todd M. Swan)
Subject: Re: Problem with talk
Reply-To: tms@twins.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Lab
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 15:51:37 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.202834.23020@ulrik.uio.no> borrel@sigallah.dhhalden.no  
(Borre Ludvigsen) writes:
> In article <1992Apr08.032807.4030@slate.mines.colorado.edu>  
> mfriedel@monolith.rmnug.org writes:
> > Well here is what I get when I try to invoke talk on my machine
> > 
> > [Couldn't bind to control socket : Can't assign requested address (49)]
> > ......
> > Mike
> 
> I simply get a [Checking for invitation on caller's machine] from both my  
> NeXT Dimension Cube and the other host, a SUN (both ways).
> 
> Any advice appreciate - preferably by mail.

This one's easy.  NeXT uses BSD4.3 talk and Sun uses BSD4.2 talk and they are  
incompatible.  I'd  suggest compiling a 4.3 talk for the Sun to get it updated.

Todd
--
!  "Finally, some good  ! Todd M. Swan (ADP-2 - MS P910)!
!  software for a PC."  ! tms@lanl.gov  (NeXTMail)      !
!  -- Steve Jobs on     ! Los Alamos National Laboratory!
!     NeXTstep '486     ! Los Alamos, NM  87545         !
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: coco@ihcoco.att.com (Felix A. Lugo)
Subject: Re: Printer Accounting
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, I.L.
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 02:29:33 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.013359.11762@fsg.com> chuck@fsg.com (Chuck Yerkes) writes:
| 
| Actually the appropriate Unix way of creating an empty file is
| "touch filename"  Creates if none existed, leaves it if there
| "cp /dev/null filename" make an empty file (if there before or not)
| 
| 
| Not to pick nits, but it's a VERY important shell script trick

Actually, the appropriate UNIX (hackers) way of creating an empty file is
":> filename" (not including quotes, and the ":" is optional in
the Bourne shell, but required in Csh).

	8^)

--

===========================================================================
Felix A. Lugo

E-Mail: (NeXTmail preferred)			Felix_A_Lugo@ATT.COM
						coco@ihcoco.att.com
     AT&T NeXT User Group			nug@ihcoco.att.com
     HOME NeXTcube				home@ihcoco.att.com
===========================================================================
From: lonewolf@muse.Corp.Sun.COM (Peter Pak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: I need a copy of inetd.conf from NeXTStep 2.0
Date: 5 Apr 92 22:37:14 GMT
Reply-To: lonewolf@muse.Corp.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: muse.corp.sun.com

Hi,

Can somebody email me a copy of their /etc/inetd.conf?
I was mucking around on my roomates NeXT Cube and somehow
the file has been erased and inetd refuses to start.

The original problem I was having was with the Display Manager?.

The cube starts up (with an error message for the missing 
/etc/inetd.conf file) and clears the screen and the mouse cursor 
shows up but the Workspace Manager doesn't start.  Is this related 
at all to the fact that inetd hasn't been started?

Thanks for any info!

-Peter

P.S. I looked through the SNM Manual but it wasn't much help.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: john@oceania.com (John Robison)
Subject: Sun CD-ROM on a NeXT -- Sort Of
Reply-To: john@oceania.com
Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 20:54:02 GMT

> > Was anybody successful to use a Sun CD-ROM on a NeXT  ?
> 
> I was able to connect the Sun CD-ROM with no problems whatsoever.
> 
Ditto.

Note you must have NeXT O.S. version 2.2 to actually read the disk.
Also note NeXT 2.2 only read our Hi-Sierra format CD-ROM disks.

John
-- 
John Robison
john@oceania.com
Oceania Health Care Systems
NeXTMail Gladly Accepted
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing over Ethertalk ?
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:42:45 GMT
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central


 Monty> == Monty Solomon <Monty Solomon <monty%roscom@think.com>> 

 Monty> CAP currently supports AppleTalk Phase I only.

This is incorrect.  CAP supports Phase II also (despite what the docs
say); I'm using it (on a Sun) in a very Phase II environment.
--
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System Manager & Postmaster     |  "There's always something going out of
Electronic Frontier Foundation  |      business in Central Square."
+1 617 864 0665  NIC: [CKD1]    |   -Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@eff.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ernst@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Ernst Kloecker)
Subject: Good Postscript-RIP for CANON COLOR LASER COPIER 300 ?
Keywords: CANON postscript RIP
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 16:23:21 GMT

Hallo,

can anybody recommend a good PostScript-RIP for the Canon Color Laser Copier
300? I am working for some architects who recently purchased such a machine
with a Canon Rip F 231700 (I don't know, if that's the correct name, that
number is on a little sticker on the back of the RIP). They want to use the
setup to print out brochures including scanned color images and CAD-drawings.

They are not really happy with what they have now, because apperently the
RIP refuses to work with certain color images and also the color quality
and resolution is not as good as the copier manages when just copying.

As I understand color copiers they have a scanner and a printer built in,
so the output quality when just printing should be higher than when copying (
scanning and printing). So I assume the RIP isn't doing a proper job here.

Am I right here and does anybody know of any better RIP for the Canon 300 ?

If there isn't any better RIP for this machine, does anybody know of a better
color printer (A3) ?
--

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Daniel T. Pritts)
Subject: Re: 3270 Terminal Emulator
Keywords: tn3270 SYS REQ
Organization: U of Michigan, ITD Research Systems
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 02:52:44 GMT

someone wrote:
> the same as the version that comes with NS 2.0 and later.  The only  
difference  
> that I know of is that with the NeXT version a ctrl-C will give you  
a bus  
> error, while the disttn3270 will not.   In NS 1.0 days
> the tn3270 that came on the NeXT was a much older version.

Well, part of my problem is certainly that i'm not familiar with 3270  
terminals in general, but I can't quite figure out one thing, after  
looking at /etc/map3270 and /etc/termcap:

WHAT IS THE "SYS REQ" KEY MAPPED TO?
--
dan pritts
computer systems consultant
university of michigan itd consulting and support services
dan.pritts@umich.edu    (nextmail ok, but note in subject line)
313/998-6265
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner)
Subject: Re: Worm drives <==> NeXT
Organization: L5 Computing
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 01:26:27 GMT

In article <c7VW02A.0fAb01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent  
L Shephard) writes:
|> Why bother with a WORM (Write One Read Many) optical drive?
|> Just get a regular WMRM (Write Many Read Many) optical drive.
1. WORM media is less expensive.
2. WORM hardware is less expensive for equiv. capacity
3. WORM media is good for 100 years.
4. WORM data can't be modified.

Scotty
From: suite!tarbell@uunet.uu.net (Mark A. Tarbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: open(2) doesn't block on DCD
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:20:44 GMT
Reply-To: suite!tarbell@uunet.uu.net

In article <3347@starlab.UUCP> st@starlab.UUCP (Stefan Taxhet) writes:
> But getty doesn't block!
> My little program using open(2) doesn't either!
> 
> To test this I removed the modem (DCD shouldn't be asserted then?),
> but the same result...

Stefan:

open(2) does indeed block as advertised, but only if you have a
device connected to the port which ties the DCD pin LOW (ground
state).  By default, the port will float DCD HIGH (asserted or
"true")... To simulate this, connect the DCD pin to ground via
a dropping resistor (say 1k ohm).  voila! open blocks. Disconnect
the resistor and voila! the open goes through. Check what your
attached device does. You may be surprised.

I went 'round on this one until I figured out what was
happening.  But it really does work when set up correctly!

Mark Tarbell (suite!tarbell@uunet.uu.net) or (tarbell@suite.com)
From: pfkeb@kaon.slac.stanford.edu (Paul Kunz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3270 Terminal Emulator
Date: 11 Apr 92 01:44:11 GMT
Reply-To: pfkeb@kaon.slac.stanford.edu

In article <1992Apr9.025244.4809@terminator.cc.umich.edu>  
danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Daniel T. Pritts) writes:
> 
> WHAT IS THE "SYS REQ" KEY MAPPED TO?
> --
   I think sys req is not in /etc/map3270 because on most IBM mainframes it  
doesn't do anything interesting.   But if you want to bind it to something, put  
in the following line

treq = '^b' | '\EOl';	# pfk - used at SLACVM to retreive last command

or where ever you want to bind it.
--
Paul F. Kunz	(NeXT mail ok)
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University
Voice: (415) 926-2884   (NeXT) Fax: (415) 926-3587
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: chuck@fsg.com (Chuck Yerkes)
Subject: Re: BAD netinfo tables?
Organization: Fusion Systems Group, New York City
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 01:38:54 GMT

>>In article <1992Apr2.234455.15919@fsg.com> chuck@fsg.com (Chuck Yerkes)
>writes:
>>>Ooops.  I have a netinfo problems (I want text files back!!).  
>>
>ftp next.com.  Somewhere on there is nifix, (or something close), I think it
>may be what you want.
>
>Jim De Arras
>
>

Thanks all who suggested this.  It fixed that problem and a couple others
elsewhere that I didn't know about (yet).  If you have next, have nifix.


chuck yerkes
chuck@fsg.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fell@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: booting from external disk
Reply-To: fell@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:11:23 GMT

I just got a color turbo and wish to boot off my external hard
drive, as I do on my mono station. On that unit, after getting
the Next> prompt I type bsd(1,0,0) -a, wait a bit and enter sd1a 
in response to the prompt on the screen. Everything works fine.
	Following the instructions in the System Administration book,
on the turbo I follow the same steps. However, in this case after a bit
of info on the screen I get the message "exception #5 (0x14) at ....".
I must then enter bsd to boot from my internal. 
	Does anyone have any idea why this procedure does not work on
the new machine? The only difference I can see is that the turbo
has 2.1 and 2.0 in on the external drive. If convenient, could any
responses be emailed? Thanks, Dick Fell
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rallan@helical.com (Robb Aley Allan)
Subject: Re: SCSI questions...
Reply-To: rallan@helical.com
Organization: Helical Systems, Ltd.
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 21:01:16 GMT

Dave Olson writes
   In <CHIN.92Apr5104133@walnut.chem.upenn.edu> chin@walnut.chem.upenn.edu (Chin Wu)  
writes:
   | > You ALWAYS have to power ALL devices on a SCSI chain.  Sorry.  And
   | > you should remove all terminators, except for one at the end of the
   | > chain.  The physical order of the scsi devices makes NO difference
   | > in a properly installed and terminated chain, any evidence to the
   | > contrary points to something wrong.
   | 
   | I am not so sure this is correct. On my system, I have a external hard
   | drive and a CD-ROM drive. The hard drive is a fujitsu 660M and since
   | it is so loud, I won't turn it on until I need it. Same thing goes for
   | the CD-ROM drive.

I won't pretend to know the electrical stuff. But in practical terms, some devices won't  
be recognized if they are turned on AFTER the computer has booted, since the computer  
polls the SCSI bus to learn what devices are there only at bootup. Some drives obviously  
seem to actively signal the computer of their presence when they come on-line after  
bootup, but if so, I suspect this is is risky since other devices may be trying to use  
the bus at the same time.

Leaving a device off throughout the session should not be a problem -- unless it is the  
LAST device, which should be the ONLY one terminated. For reasons best explained by an  
EE, some of these terminators require power to operate correctly.

-- 
Robb Aley Allan, The Gulfstream Group
220 Sunrise Avenue, Palm Beach, FL 33480
voice: 407/ 832-4013   email: Robb_Allan@gun.com
Co-founder/director, Gotham Users of NeXT (GUN)
From: willing@pantheon.icsl.ucla.edu (Scott Willingham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: More on NFS Export problems
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:27:04 GMT
Organization: University of California at Los Angeles, EE Dept.

In article <1992Apr8.185126.26593@cs.yale.edu>
  nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu writes:
>In article <1992Apr8.160553.29408@oceania.com> john@oceania.com (John Robison)  
>writes:
>> If you add a /etc/exports file to a running NeXT, the easiest thing to
>> do is re-boot the computer. I have tried to figure out which daemons
>> to run, and tried to remember, but it is really easier to just re-boot.
>
>/usr/etc/exportfs -a
>
>--
>Nathan Janette		"I'm a NeXTstep man,
>Dept MB&B, Yale Univ	 I'm a NeXTcube guy"
>New Haven, CT
>nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)


Sorry Nathan, John is correct.  If you already export file systems then
exportfs alone is fine.  However, if you have just created /etc/exports
for the first time, then a reboot is the easiest thing.  If you search
for "/etc/exports" in the file /etc/rc, you will see what is done upon
rebooting.  If you don't wish to reboot, you can manually run the
required commands as root (which is pretty easy if you cut and paste).

-- Scott Willingham // willing@icsl.ucla.edu
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From: hacker@black-silicon.mclean.va.us (Dark Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Floppy on a next/x on a next
Keywords: X Xwindows floppy
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:41:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Black Silicon, Fortress Of Computation

In article <1992Mar26.023445.27757@fsg.com> chuck@fsg.com (Chuck Yerkes) writes:
>  We're looking into NeXT X.  What are some experiences with co-Xist,
>mouse-X, and the X11R5 from UCSB?  Can they run with next apps at the
>same time?  Post and we'll have a lively discussion.
>thanks folks,

Xnext works quite well.  The only problem with Xnext is that it
takes over your screen i.e. you can't flop back and forth between
apps.  A good basic R4 X windows system.

Now co-Xist is easy to install and works quite well.  I purchased
the Motif developer's version.  co-Xist also let's you move between
apps (hence the name).  I have one problem with co-Xist though and
that is this one single app I have, using all Xlib calls, doesn't
get the keycodes right ("i" is turned into a "7" and all the special
characters "$" and "%" and "^" etc are turned into spaces).

I recommend both.  For the money, Pencom's product seems pretty
good especially if you need Motif.

--- 

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8340 Greensboro Drive #223  Phone: (703) 356-6514
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
Subject: Neuron FAX96+ -> Neuron FAX1414 ?
Organization: UCLA, Mathematics Department
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 01:03:42 GMT

I thought I heard that Neuron would replace
FAX96+'s with FAX1414's, tho I'm not sure. 

Anyone know if this is true?

-----

For the record, I have not had any problems with my 96+,
(I've had it a couple months)
tho I have only used it as a modem and to send and recieve
occasional short fax's.

I haven't tried to use it as a SLIP or PPP link, or really
tested is on a wide range of fax machines or on its 9600 baud
speed. Perhaps I will hit more problems then (?).

-------
Q: is it supposed to be smart enough to automatically 
filter voice calls and let me answer those? If so, that doesn't
seem to occur. Where's that manual....


--
Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet; NeXTMail is welcome)
From: SAMcinty@exua.exeter.ac.uk (Scott McIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Linking files to external SCSI drive
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:50:14 GMT
Organization: NeXT Campus Consultant


My internal 400 is filling up and I have a 1.6Gig external drive that
doesn't like to boot on its own...so is there a way of getting a 
symbolic link between crucial directories such as LocalApps, LocalLibrary
and so on onto the external drive?

Any othere solutions welcome!

thanks,
Scott
From: bill@eplnxt.jsc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do I setup Mail?
Keywords: Mail
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:34:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: aio.1992Apr8.233419.22403
Reply-To: bill@eplnxt.jsc.nasa.gov
Organization: nasa-jsc

I have a NeXT Color Dem. board inside my cube with a 040 board and am  
running the system as a stand alone (no network).  My question is how do I  
setup the mail system so I can recieve mail via the net?


		Bill

ps.

Please don't respond by sending me a mail message ... the mail system is  
obiviously not setup at this time.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp)
Subject: binary file editor (was: Re: Return Receipts in NeXT Mail)
Organization: The Home of the Pilhuhn
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 21:01:44 GMT

irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) writes:

>In <1992Apr5.064433.8327@proponent.com> monty%roscom@think.com (Monty Solomon) writes:

>I don't know whether NeXTs come with a binary file editor.  I 

Yes, it does: emacs.
-- 
Heiko W.Rupp  Gerwigstr.5  7500 Kh'e 1  hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org  +49 721 693642
..  One FISHWICH coming up!!
From: songer@ei.ecn.purdue.edu (Christopher M Songer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Backup Device
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:34:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: noose.1992Apr8.153426.1247
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

Hi!

     I've sold my cube and am going to need a backup device for my
color station. I'm not real wild about using floppy. On the other hand,
I only have a 660 to back up and don't want to spend an arm and a leg
for a zowie-super-density-gee-it's-fast-and-small device. A simple
device that is SCSI and has > 15 Meg per media should be fine. (Of
course cost per media should be reasonable too.)

     I'm certainly open to suggestions. I've seen a relly coolo 20
meg floppy'esque drive for $400, but the media cost is WAY too high!
In general for device + media for two complete backups I'd like to
keep below $600 or so.

     So: What are people using?

Thanks! I'll sumarize if there is a desire.

-Chris
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: HALP! Can't print to remote on non-ni network
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: 14 Apr 92 23:47:07 GMT

I can print a test page from the printmanager, but every other 
application says "No Printer Chosen" in the print dialog box.
There's no scrollable menu of printers to choose from, unlike
the illustrations in the manuals.
We're using NIS here.
WhadoIdo?

Rich