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From: booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: What is best was to run DOS and Unix on same box?
Date: 23 Nov 92 23:57:27 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.sysv386
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

I am about to take the plunge and purchase a 486 box.  My wife will likely
be using the machine more than I to run a few DOS applications.  When I work
on the machine, I want to run Unix.  How can I best accomplish this?

I understand some DOS emulators are available.  How robust are these
emulators?  More importantly, what type of performance can you expect?  If
it runs like a dog, my wife won't be too keen on it (and the machine is really
being purchased to support her work, so it's got to do that well).

Another possibility, unless I am mistaken, would be to create a separate
bootable partition from where DOS would run.  If I can't partition a disk
in such a fashion, then perhaps buying a small second disk to run DOS is
reasonable (albeit somewhat expensive).  Perhaps these are silly ideas given
that emulators exist, but appropriate behaviour and performance of my
wife's DOS applications is crucial.

Is anyone out there running both DOS and Unix, and could you relate some
of your experiences?

Advance thanks,
mb
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: k2ph@dxis.att.com (Bob Schreibmaier)
Subject: Telebit T18PC and AT&T R3.2
Organization: QRM Central, Kresgeville, PA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 01:45:15 GMT

I have a Telebit T18PC internal modem card that works just fine
when my generic 80386 is booted as an MS-DOS machine.  But, I
need help to get AT&T System V/386 Release 3.2.3 to be able to
find it.  It's configured as COM3, since COM1 and COM2 are already
in use.  I understand that the stock "asy" driver won't be able
to find it, so I picked up FAS 2.09.1 and installed it.  It seems
to build just fine, but it can't seem to access the device.  Address
was built as 3E8 and interrupt vector was 9.

Any idea how I can get this running?  I'd rather not have to go and
buy a replacement modem!  :-(

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: daw@vivanet.com (David A. Wolf)
Subject: Re: starting X in SCO ODT
Organization: VIVATRON Corporation 
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 21:53:34 GMT
Followup-To: daw@vivanet.com
Keywords: odt startx event driver

In article <1dpl5jINNkjn@rave.larc.nasa.gov> jka@windshear.larc.nasa.gov (J. Keith Alston) writes:
>
>Hi,
>  I'm running SCO ODT (not sure which version). When I attempt to
>  start the X window system, with startx, I get the following
>  message:
>   open event driver failed: no such file or directory
>
>  does anyone out there have any idea what might be causing
>  this problem?????
RELEASE:  SCO Xsight Generic
          Open Desktop Generic 

PROBLEM: When I execute "startx" to invoke the X server, I get the error:
		
		"Can not open event driver: No such file or directory"

	 I am then returned back to a system prompt.

SOLUTION: You must run "mkdev mouse" to add the event driver devices to your
	  system.  The mouse support, utilized by SCO Xsight, is implemented 
	  using an event driver.  A mouse must be installed to create the 
	  event devices.

	  You can test to see if your mouse is installed correctly by 
	  executing the command usemouse(C) while in multiuser mode.  After 
	  executing usemouse(C), you should be able to move the mouse and 
	  see the cursor move around.  To exit usemouse(C), type "exit."

	  If an error message occurs after running usemouse(C), be sure you
	  are in multiuser mode and that a mouse is configured properly on
	  your system.  You may want to remove and reinstall your mouse with 
	  "mkdev mouse."  See your System Administrator's Guide for more 
	  information about mouse installation.

CREDITS: SCO TECH DATABASE (it scripts)

- good luck.


David Wolf
VIVATRON Corporation                       Voice: 800-836-UNIX
Rochester, New York, USA                     Fax: 716-272-7627
SCO Advanced Product Center                email: daw@vivanet.com
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: PPP on ODT 2.0 - Dynamic IP Allocation ?
Organization: The Gator Conferencing System 219-289-3745 
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 12:03:52 GMT

rob@hp11 (Rob Freyder) writes:

>I  am  in  the  process  of setting up some PPP links into my network. The
>systems  that  are dialing in are SCO ODT 2.0 boxes. I have heard that PPP
>supports  dynamic  IP address allocation. Does anyone know if SCO supports
>this feature ?  The docs dont mention it.

>Should I blow off SCO and their PPP and use something else ?

Yes.  Rumor has it that SCO has problems in this arena.   You might
want to either replace the PPP on the SCO boxes with another vendors,
or run SLIP (if it comes with SLIP), or replace SCO.

>Also,  Is  Dynamic IP Allocation standard or is that a feature unique to a
>certain implementation of PPP ?

I would guess certain implementations.  Personally, I would find it a hassle
to use dynamic addressing -- since inbound traffic wouldn't know where to
find you (would they?)


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: yaturner@dms.agames.com (D'arc Angel)
Subject: Dell Unix SVR4.2.2 and ProDesigner II
Organization: The Houses of the Holy
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:59:11 GMT


I am running Dell Unix SVR4 Issue 2.2 on a 486/50 with a ProDesigner II
and a NEC 4FG monitor, I can run xdm in the default VGA mode (640x400)
with no problem but if I try any higher resolutions (1024x768) it enters
X Windows with no problem but when it exits xdm it leaves the graphics
card in the wrong BIOS mode so that I get a wildly rolling screen (like
horizontal hold was broken). Re entering xdm doesn't help it just comes
up in the same kind of mode (rolling screen). Rebooting the system is the
only remedy. Anyone have any experience with this hardware

thanks






Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: ProDes II & Dell SVR4.2.2
Distribution: usa
Organization: Atari Games Corp.

I am running Dell Unix SVR4 Issue 2.2 on a 486/50 with a ProDesigner II
and a NEC 4FG monitor, I can run xdm in the default VGA mode (640x400)
with no problem but if I try any higher resolutions (1024x768) it enters
X Windows with no problem but when it exits xdm it leaves the graphics
card in the wrong BIOS mode so that I get a wildly rolling screen (like
horizontal hold was broken). Re entering xdm doesn't help it just comes
up in the same kind of mode (rolling screen). Rebooting the system is the
only remedy. Anyone have any experience with this hardware

thanks







-- 

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: jdp@polstra.uucp (John Polstra)
Subject: Re: ESIX 4.0.4 in-line assembly in c
Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc., Seattle, WA
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:30:50 GMT

In article <1ejapiINN4cs@agate.berkeley.edu> jef@diva.Berkeley.EDU (Jay Fleischman) writes:
> I would like to do some in-line assembly in a small portion of my C - code
> program.  I would also like information about the syntax etc. of 
> assembly routines and linking them with c programs.
> 
> I've asked tech support at ESIX, and they say they know nothing about
> it, and don't know in which manual I could look (actually, they said
> it's not there, and they have no reference either)

There's a description of it in Appendix A of "ESIX System V Release 4
Programmer's Guide: ANSI C & Programming Support Tools".  (This is one of
the manuals that made up the documentation for the ESIX 4.0.4
development kit.  It's just the ULS/Prentice-Hall book in a fancy
cover.)

I've never tried in-line assembly in C under SVR4, so I can't answer any
questions about it.  But hey, at least I found it in the manual :-).
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From: vec@alnitak.Kodak.COM (Vance Cochrane)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: 120/250Mb Tape Drives on Gateway 486/33 w/ ISC
Date: 16 Nov 92 18:16:49 GMT
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY

Hello,

I have a Gateway 486/33V on which I intend to run ISC.

I want to put a 120/250Mb 1/4" Tape drive on this system.

What I need to know if anyone out there has any experience
with this configuration, and what drives/controllers
you recommend. (I have a copy of the ISC hardware compatibility
guide but it is not the same as getting first hand information!)

Thanks in advance

vec

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From: karl@robots.in-berlin.de (Karl-P. Huestegge)
Subject: Re: Overflow warnings (SCO SV3.2)
Organization: K.-P. Huestegge, Systemanalyse und Beratung, Berlin
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 16:55:53 GMT

dmunday@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:

>I have just started getting the fallowing two messages on our 486
>SCO Unix System V/3.2 box
> 
>WARNING: Region table overflow
>NOTICE: File table overflow

Increase NREGION and/or NFILE (Options 3 and 4 of the kernel configure
script).

NREGION should be 210 for 2-3MB RAM, 250 for 4-6MB RAM and 300 for 6-15MB
RAM.
NFILE should be 150/300/400 for upto 4/6/15 MB RAM.

Look for details in your System Administrator Guide (Chapter 18).
There are some nice tables (System error messages -> affected Kernel
parameters, Amount of RAM -> tunable Parameters etc..).

Hope this helps,
     Karl-Peter.

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Berlin Friedenau                              ..unido!fub!geminix!robots!karl
From: neal@mnopltd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Is there a Jump-start on 5.4? 
Date: 17 Nov 92 11:57:45 EST
Followup-To: 
Keywords: 
Organization: MNOP Ltd - Mini & Micro Consulting, Atlanta, GA

For the fortunate beast who is blessed with a new 5.4 unix system to maintain, 
is there a document, FAQ, book, tape, video, etc which 'splains or even
enumerates the differences from earlier unixen which are likely to smite or
even bumfuzzle?

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: wes@kofax.com (Wes Chalfant)
Subject: Re: accessing NOVELL from SCO-ODT
Organization: Kofax Image Products
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 01:14:43 GMT

In article <BxKnAJ.C1y@revcan.rct.ca> dave@revcan.rct.ca (David Blackwood) writes:
>In article <1dpl8bINNkjq@rave.larc.nasa.gov> jka@windshear.larc.nasa.gov (J. Keith Alston) writes:
>>   I'm running SCO ODT. I need to know if there is any way that
>>   ODT's DOS under unix can access a novell network? Or is there any
>>   way that the novell net can be accessed directly from SCO unix?
>>   any ideas/information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
>Install Novell's TCP/IP and NFS and then you can mount your Novell
>filesystem(s) directly on your ODT file system and access it using
>either DOS Merge or UNIX commands.

	It is also possible to run the Netware shell and ethernet
drivers from within a Merge session.  This is what what original
poster said he wanted to do (although NFS or IPX/SPX may be what he
really wanted).

	In order run Netware drivers under Merge, you will need to 
dedicate an Ethernet card for that use -- if you are using TCP/IP from
the UNIX side, you'll need two Ethernet cards.  The Ethernet card
being used by Merge should be configured as an ethernet card (e.g.
"mkdev wdn1" for a Western Digital/SMC card) but not for TCP/IP.  The
I/O and memory addresses of the card must be specified in an entry in
/etc/dosdev as a direct connect device, e.g.

	net	d .240-25f.7.ca000-cbfff.	Direct attach WD8003E.

and the corresponding device ("net" above) must be configured into the
Merge session either by adding it when Merge is called (e.g. "dos
+anet") or by adding the device to the default Merge startup options
with "dosopt".


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: Overflow warnings (SCO SV3.2)
Organization: The Gator Conferencing System 219-289-3745 
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:32:26 GMT

kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith) writes:

>Relinking the kernal and installing the new unix automatically creates
>/unix.old.  This is fine unless you screw up the kernel twice in a row
>and have nothing to boot.  This is where the /unix.good can save the day.

Dell comes with a unix.ok which is a kernel with just about
everything enabled -- but it boots ..   Also, with Dell SVR4
it's possible to boot the distribution boot floppy and hit
system administration at the first prompt -- then you can mount
the hard drives and work on the boot drive

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From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: tar problems
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:33:40 GMT

In article <Bxwx0w.EEr@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>sam@csi.compuserve.com (Sam Neely) writes:

>>There is a new version of tar for issue 2.2 on dell1.dell.com in

>I've been having one heck of a time connecting via ftp to dell.com 

>as a matter of fact, I have had email in the queue for a couple
>of days for machines at *.dell.com (awaiting SMTP)

I was told today (Thursday) that Dell had been off the internet for
four days, and had just gotten things back up. Apparently some 
equipment died, but I don't know what or how much. Things should be
working now, although the backlog may be pretty big...


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radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
From: neal@mnopltd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject:  Is "mandex" just a cruel joke?
Date: 23 Nov 92 23:47:17 EST
Followup-To: 
Keywords: 
Organization: MNOP Ltd - Mini & Micro Consulting, Atlanta, GA

In poking around a Unisys 5.4 system, I came across a neato nifty context
search facility for the man pages called mandex.   

It apparently provides a full screen browser, etc.

The only catch is that no where is it documented the !@#%$%$^%&^%@#@#$
keystrokes to make it work!!  Not the man page, nor even the strings 
inside the executable.   Apparently pressing F2 and F3 as a Wyse 75 
causes it to go through some of its motions.

So anyway, is this a standard 5.4 feature, or some half baked addition
by Unisys, and does anyone know the rosetta stone for this?


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: How to determing the size of you swap space?
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:55:23 GMT

In article <1eg9k5INNsuj@uwm.edu> peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Peter J Diaz de Leon) writes:
>When installing Unix, how does one determine the
>size of the swap space?  Also is it possible to
>figure out once you have allocated swap space
>how much of it is being used?

I was told that the swap space should be at least as large as your main
memory, and more wouldn't hurt.

Swap usage can be checked with the swap command; see the manpage for options.


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"Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: ABS1 <ABS1@musica.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU>
Subject: X386 hanging
Organization: University of Western Sydney, Macarthur
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:33:40 GMT

I have a 386 with 387-40, & WD7000 SCSI subsystem running Intel SVR4 V2
with XFree86. However when in X the system hangs alot. Will sas make a
difference to the situitation.
Help.

Joseph Chillari
UWS Macarthur.
From: mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 386 Unix - is 5,000 logins realistic?
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:34:07 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

todd@toolz.uucp (Todd Merriman) writes:
: 
: Is it realistic to support about 5,000 logins with a 386 Unix?
: There will be no more than 32 logins active at any time, but what
: about the time it takes to look up the password during login?

Well, it depends. How fast is the 386 ? How much memory does it
have ? Another very important consideration: what kind of hard
drive does it use, and does the controller have caching capabilities ?

Then you'll need to ask, what kind of applications these 32-users
will run ? (light, mainly reading mail; medium, lots of text
processing and newsgroups; heavy, everyone uses EMACS and
compiles large programs all the time; superweight, everyone
runs X on the machine... etc)

I guess what it comes down to: reading the password files may
not be that hard for 5000 users. Supporting the 32 on-line
users may be the problem, depending on the configuration and
load profile.

Another biggie to think about is what kind of performance
your users will tolerate. I remember at a public access site
(nyx at Denver University) the old Pyramid would crawl almost
to a halt, but since it was the only internet machine available
to many, it was 'tolerable' to nyx users. Now they're running
a SparcServer.

Regards,

-Ade.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: Esix/Motif Question
Organization: The Gator Conferencing System 219-289-3745 
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:13:21 GMT

evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:

>In article <BxvMtt.2DB@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:

>>Last I heard, a good portion of ESIX's technical support
>>team quit..

>As always, either you heard wrong, or you heard what you wanted to hear.

>*One* person quit for a better job at a University. Contrary to your
>misconceptions, this does not constitute "a good portion" of ESIX
>technical staff.

I heard that 2 left, and since the department was made up of only
a few folks to begin with, that leaves their support department in
poor shape..

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From: peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Peter J Diaz de Leon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Does there exist something like VISIX for ascii terminals?
Date: 23 Nov 1992 21:16:33 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.9.13


I guess the subject line says it all.  I am looking for a
user friendly front end for unix that runs on acsii terminal?

-Peter
(peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu)

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: inittab problems with Dell 2.2
Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:12:44 GMT

In <105@jassys.UUCP> tony@jassys.UUCP (Tony Holden) writes:

>I'm trying to add a line to /etc/inittab to run a script that starts
>up database servers & such.  It's never run.  Here's how it looks:
>rclocal:23:wait:/usr/local/rc.local > /dev/sysmsg 2>&1 < /dev/console

Try to reduce the initial tag to two chars, i.e.:

rl:23:wait:/usr/local/rc.local > /dev/sysmsg 2>&1 < /dev/console

Make sure the tag ("rl") is uniq or init will go nuts.


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: /boot & /dos
Organization: The Gator Conferencing System 219-289-3745 
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:21:01 GMT

gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon) writes:

>SCO does have a 30 day return policy, and many resellers will take the SW back
>for a credit if it doesn't work.

That needs to be advertised.  I was under the impression that once the SCO
package (and distribution disks) were opened -- the deal was done..


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: ice@skynet.uucp (Ice)
Subject: Re: 386 Unix - is 5,000 logins realistic?
Organization: Industrial Cybernetics
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:55:40 GMT


If for some reason you are committed to an Intel architecture, I
might suggest that you look into a multiprocessor 386/486 system
such as the Compaq systempro w/ SCO Unix modified for multi-cpu's
or any of the other machines that were released in response to
the systempro.

That _alot_ of users! That's comparable to the needs of a university's
undergraduate student enrollment!! And with over a dozen machines, 
things are strained. But then, the students at Waterloo are spoilt
brats anyway.

Like someone else said, depends what they're going to be doing.

Hope this helps.

Ice()		ice@skynet.{uucp|tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca}
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From: jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu (James Tsillas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Is there a way to mount a DOS file system?
Date: 17 Nov 92 20:51:42 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA


Is there a way for me to get at my MS-Doggy partition from ISC/Unix
(2.2.1). I've got vpix installed and running.

thanks,
-Jim.
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