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From: gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Hardware Hackers for hire? (was: Re: Drivers?)
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:22:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: gnosys.1992Nov17.152200.8059

In <BxtI0p.Kv4@tridom.com> alanf@eng.tridom.com (Alan Fleming) writes:

> I've had my Vidpal for three years and Gil's upgrade for about a year.  When I
> had the time, I didn't have the experience with a soldering iron.  Now I've
> got the experience by not time.

:-)

Well, I always like to think of the situation Alice found herself in in the
immortal _Alice in Wonderland_ where she inadvertantly leaves the little key
up on the glass table after quaffing whatever potion makes her small enough
to fit through the little locked door she has discovered in the baseboard.
Now she's just the right size to fit through the doorway, but the key, which
was right within her grasp, is now completely out of reach.  :-(

Life is like this, I find.

My own situation is that I have both the experience, the time, and both kits,
along with most of the necessary hardware (brand-new Priam 519 drive, cables,
XT box to put things into, ICUS kit, vidpal) - but I still lack the courage!

Any day now....  :-)

> Think Peace.

I'll second that motion!

Gary
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From: kupiec@hp800.lasalle.edu (Bob Kupiec)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: hard disk woes
Date: 20 Nov 92 18:55:30 GMT
Organization: LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA

In <1992Nov19.143846.23830@jonlab.UUCP>, jon@jonlab.UUCP writes:
>I've made a horrible mistake.  I turned my 3B1 off for a while.
>
>Until recently, "jonlab" had been a 3B1 running continuously for
>4 years.  It was taken off-line for a few weeks and when I tried
>to reboot, I have voluminous hard disk errors.
>
>The system boots from a floppy-based UNIX, so the basic hardware
>is OK.  The diagnostic disk reports about 300 HD errors.  Different
>ones on most runs.

Could it possible be the drive itself?  Remember all the stiction
problems that were mentioned with the Segate ST251-x because of
overlubrication of the platters?  Having the drive run for 4 years
and then shutdown could have done it in.

On a related sidenote, I've had a ST251-1 in my 3b1 for 3 years now
with no problems.  The system would run continiously for many months
and might be shut down for a few weeks.  Everything is fine.  At
one point the machine was on for a few days a week and then off.
No problems.  Am I one of the lucky ones?  Not once, have I had a 
problem.  Maybe just a batch of these drives were bad and the
defect was non-extant on some?  Does anyone have serial numbers
of those with problems, or manufacture dates?

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From: forrie@morwyn.uucp (Forrest Aldrich)
Subject: Re: Shadow Password File
Organization: Vision Graphics
			  Dover, NH
			  USA
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:58:33 GMT
Reply-To: morwyn.uucp!forrie@unhtel.unh.edu (Forrest Aldrich - SysAdmin)
Distribution: usa

From article <1992Nov20.213343.23814@ra.msstate.edu>,
pcg2@ra.msstate.edu (Patrick C Greer) has written:
+--------------------
| Is there any way to use a shadow password file on the 3b1?
| I am interested in fixing as many security holes in my system as 
| possible.  I saw a couple in the faq, but if anyone knows of any more
| I would like to know of them.  
+--------------------

	You can use the John F. Haugh Shadow Login Package, which I highly
	recommend.  It requires some minor 'tweaking' to work with the 3b1,
	which I have done (problems with utmp/wtmp, etc).  I had brought
	this issue up previously to the group, but unfortunately there
	wasn't any interest, so I have no plans of updating here, either.
	If you need help with it, I may be able to spare some time.

	Forrest

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From: steve@zero.com (Steve Urich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: "new" wmgr (was Re: Unix system V question)
Date: 17 Nov 92 09:35:13 GMT
Organization: Beyonet - Zero Network

In <1992Nov15.060836.24228@gnosys.svle.ma.us>, gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us writes:
>
>Right.  Same here.  While I do like the idea of not having to kill and
>restart wmgr every couple of days, as I do at present with the stock wmgr,

	Yep it sure fixes that crazy memory leak doesn't it? I also noticed
	that THE STORE version also gets less confused when you switch
	back and forth from different windows. 
	I'm sure glad that I don't have to kill the wmgr every couple of
	days now either.

	You'll get used to not seeing your system crash after a while if
	you forget to restart the ol wmgr or go out of town for too long.

	Also I noticed that after I installed it and ran it without 
	shutting down and rebooting it did crash the kernel with some
	kind of memory fault.

	I rebooted it and its been working great ever since. Must have
	been some kind of a video error or something.

	Steve
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From: rdavis@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: groff binaries archived for 3b1?
Date: 19 Nov 92 03:45:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: jhunix.1992Nov19.034531.29039
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Does anyone know if the binaries for groff have been archived anywhere
for the 3b1?  Thanks!  My machine doesn't have the text formatting
software, so I guess that groff is the next best thing.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: jcd@vogon.att.com (Jack Dixon)
Subject: Voice Power equivalent for SPARC platform
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:13:11 GMT

Does anyone out there know of a "Voice Power like" board for SPARC
or other unix platforms, or is the 3b1 once again still ahead of its
time?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: bruce@blilly.UUCP (Bruce Lilly)
Subject: Re: New WMGR
Organization: Bruce Lilly
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 23:13:58 GMT
Reply-To: lilb@sony.compuserve.com

In article <1992Nov18.104105.14756@gnosys.svle.ma.us> gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) wrote:
>
>| I may have spoken too soon...
>|
>|   1 S   root  8992     1  3  27 20 147  7: 13   5bf14  Nov 15   w3  1:16 wmgr
>
>Yeah - I'm fairly sure I've seen the memory leak even when no new windows
>are opened.  The only time I open a new window is when I use the DOS-73
>coprocessor, which is not very often, and I still find wmgr consuming
>ever more memory the longer it runs.  It seems more likely to me that the
>malloc() is done in window switching, whether or not there's a problem
>related to opening new windows.

I switch windows frequently, and news ones are created (and
subsequently destroyed every time I run vi, trn, watch, etc. as
these are run under windy -b.  As of today, wmgr 1.7 seems to be
holding steady:

  1 S   root  8992     1  3  27 20 147  7: 13   5bf14  Nov 15   w3  2:00 wmgr

I'm fairly sure that by now wmgr 1.8 would have grown quite a
bit more.  Time will tell...

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From: andy@cs.caltech.edu (Andy Fyfe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: kermit and onboard modem
Date: 17 Nov 1992 20:21:42 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: kodiak.cs.caltech.edu

In article <1ebebsINN717@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> electro@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Eric L Patterson) writes:
>Does anyone know how to use the onboard modem with kermit on a 3b1?

If you're using a current version of kermit, the following will work.
This is the file ftp.cs.caltech.edu:pub/3b1/sample.kermrc.  It defines
a macro "call" -- you can then say "call 123-4567".  The sample.kermrc
gets installed as .kermrc in your home directory.

Andy Fyfe					andy@cs.caltech.edu

set file display fullscreen
set attributes date on
set block-check 3
set receive packet-length 512
set window 5
# We add ^O (\15) to the prompt just in case we got switched to the
# alternate character set (using ^N) from line noise.
set prompt {\15\v(host)> }

# in the dial command we use t for tone.  use p if you want pulse dialing.
def dial_int -
    set modem att7300, -
    set line /dev/ph1, -
    set speed 1200, -
    dial t\%1, -
    if success connect
def dial_ext -
    set modem hayes, -
    set line /dev/tty000, -
    set speed 2400, -
    dial \%1, -
    if success connect
def call -
    dial_int \%1
def example -
    call 123-4567
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From: ericd@omega.kcr.uky.edu (Eric B. Durbin)
Subject: Where can I get a 3B1 power supply?
Organization: Kentucky Cancer Registry, Univ. of Ky
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:17:06 GMT

Well, my 3B1 has finally died after 5+ years of continuous reliable service.
I'm hoping its just the power supply!

Does anyone know where I can get a replacement power supply?

Thanks already.

Eric
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From: adh@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Subject: Re: "new" wmgr (was Re: Unix system V question)
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:37:29 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.001850.7473@craycos.com> jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies) writes:
"This seems like a good time to go off on a tangent:  does anybody out
"there know how to set the name in the window menu to something other
"than "Unknown Process"?  I've been able to set up different entries in
"my main Office menu that all make shells, but I can't get them to have
"different names in the window menu (which is what I really want).

it's done with an ioctl.  i'm annoyed there isn't an escape sequence
for it, but when (;^>) we get the src...

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From: gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: New WMGR
Date: 16 Nov 92 17:32:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: gnosys.1992Nov16.173248.2449

In <953@hawkeye.hawkeye.com> mps@hawkeye.hawkeye.com (Michael Snyder) writes:

> ...
> /etc/wmgr:
> 	 wmgr:wmgr.sl 1.8 

> I've seen somewhere (another followup) that the one on OSU comes back from
> "what" with version 1.7.  With the 1.8 version, I have run 37 days with two
> gettys running on window devices (may have gone longer... rural power :-)
> and have no known memory leak problems with any processes.

There is definitely a memory leak problem with the 1.8 version.  It was
discussed on the net at least a year ago.  You can see the problem by
using "ps -el":

  F S   UID   PID  PPID  C PRI NI ADR SZ:RSZ   WCHAN TTY  TIME COMD
  1 S     0 24310     1  3  27 20 225 23: 26   5bf68  w4  4:23 wmgr

Note the SZ and RSZ numbers - I've seen them get into three digits.

OK.  Let's see what happens when I kill and restart wmgr...

  F S   UID   PID  PPID  C PRI NI ADR SZ:RSZ   WCHAN TTY  TIME COMD
  1 S     0  2415     1  3  27 20 28b  6: 11   5bf68  w4  0:03 wmgr

QED.

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From: jon@jonlab.UUCP (Jon LaBadie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: hard disk woes
Date: 22 Nov 92 08:08:49 GMT
Organization: JG Computing

I'm reposting this.  I do not believe it made it out.
Forgive me if I'm wrong.

I've made a horrible mistake.  I turned my 3B1 off for a while.

Until recently, "jonlab" had been a 3B1 running continuously for
4 years.  It was taken off-line for a few weeks and when I tried
to reboot, I have voluminous hard disk errors.

The system boots from a floppy-based UNIX, so the basic hardware
is OK.  The diagnostic disk reports about 300 HD errors.  Different
ones on most runs.

Some HD errors seemed to be repeated on most diagnostic runs.  I
listed these in the bad block table and got further in the boot
procedure.  Now it seems to get to UNIX and I get a "panic" message
followed by an automatic reboot.

I recall postings from 3B1 gurus about similar situations.  I think
they dealt with connector corrosion and/or low (adjustable) power
supply voltage.  However, those reports are on 3B1 medium and I can
not access them just when I need them.

Do you have any suggestions on what to try to get my 3B1 back on-line?

Jon

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: rs@cbnewsm.uucp (robert.w.sanderman)
Subject: Printing problem
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:29:54 GMT

On my 7300 the print-screen key has stopped working and print from a dos-73
session no longer works.  However, using lp directly from the shell works
fine.  Any ideas on what/where to look?

Thanks
Bob Sanderman
rs@homxb.att.com
From: steve@zero.com (Steve Urich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: /dev/ph1 and comport 1
Date: 14 Nov 92 16:26:10 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Beyonet - Zero Network
Keywords: Link together
Summary: ph1 OBM and DOS-73 com-1


	Hello again, has anyone ever experimented with linking the UNIX
	sysv 3.51m /dev/ph1 OBM device and the com1 port device on the
	DOS-73 which is also supposed to be going to the OBM (on board
	Modem). Just wondering if there is a serial link that can be
	manufactured between the too cpus without haveing to use any
	external ports com2 or ttys.

	Thank you for listening.
	Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: pcg2@ra.msstate.edu (Patrick C Greer)
Subject: GSS Drivers
Organization: Mississippi State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:51:46 GMT

I have two disk labeled GSS drivers and I was wondering what these
drivers do?  I was thinking about installing them, but I would
like to know what they do first.  Also, what was the address of that
machine CalTech that has files for the 3B1?  I was looking for the FIXDISK2.0
and could not find it on Ohio-State.  

					Thanks
					Chris

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From: bdb@becker.GTS.ORG (Bruce Becker)
Subject: Re: New WMGR
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:12:41 GMT

In article <953@hawkeye.hawkeye.com> mps@hawkeye.hawkeye.com (Michael Snyder) writes:
|From article <Bxnx1n.859@zero.com>, by steve@zero.com (Steve Urich):
|> In <1992Nov12.141830.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>, jwstok01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
|>>Yet annother suggestion is to get a 'new' wmgr from osu in THE STORE!
|>>(/pub/att7300/STORE/WMGR+IN)  this replacement has a few bugs fixed from the
|>>[...]
|> 
|> Yes this is a good suggestion. I got it and it also fixed the memory
|> leak that was talked about when wmgr gets more then one login window
|> when you make more in the inittab. It used to creep up until the
|> [...]
|
|The 'new' wmgr mentioned above appears to be either a part of base 3.51 or
|was on FIXDISK2.0, as my system already has the features mentioned as part
|of the one on OSU-CIS.  The following output from "what" shows what's here
|on hawkeye:
|
|/etc/wmgr:
|	 wmgr:wmgr.sl 1.8 
|
|I've seen somewhere (another followup) that the one on OSU comes back from
|"what" with version 1.7.  With the 1.8 version, I have run 37 days with two
|gettys running on window devices (may have gone longer... rural power :-)
|and have no known memory leak problems with any processes.


	On this system the os is version 3.51, with most
	of the 3.51m fixes applied (but the 3.51m kernel
	won't boot, sob) - the 1.8 wmgr still leaks some
	memory, but not as much as the old 3.51 version.


	On the other system the 3.51m kernel boots up OK
	and the wmgr seems not to leak memory.


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From: k2ph@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (The QRPer)
Subject: Strange problem with PC7300
Organization: QRM Central
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:24:05 GMT

I'm having a strange problem with a PC7300 at home.  It won't
boot from the hard drive, so I've gone through the diagnostic
tests and found that it can't recal the hard drive.  I tried
another known good hard drive and got the same response.  I
tested the controller chip and found it to be okay.  In fact,
the only thing I can find wrong with the system is that the
-12 volt line on the power supply reads about -11 volts with
no load (I don't know if it drops under load).

Has anybody seen this happen before?  Could all this be caused
by the -12 volt line on the power supply being low?  Any leads
would be greatly appreciated -- I'm about to pull my hair out!

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From: choff@cs.wright.edu (Carl C. Hoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: UNIXPC Service Manual
Date: 15 Nov 92 23:53:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Nov15.235327.14325
Distribution: usa
Organization: Wright State University

Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: UNIXPC Service Manual
Summary: 
Expires: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: usa
Organization: Wright State University
Keywords: 
Subject: UNIXPC Service Manual
 
Reference: 
    Message-ID: <1992Nov9.185040.21024@ra.msstate.edu>
    From: pcg2@ra.msstate.edu (Patrick C Greer)
 
>	I am looking for an AT&T UNIXPC Service Manual.
>I would like one like they gave their technicians if they are still
>out there.  Just let me know if they are available anywhere.
 
The "AT&T UNIX PC Service and Parts Ordering Information" (manual number
999-750-402IS) lists two manuals:
 
    Comcode    Description
    ---------  -----------
    845659697  AT&T UNIX PC Service Manual
    845660117  AT&T UNIX PC Reference Manual
 
For the first, I can't help you.
 
The second was available from AT&T as of last June.  I obtained a copy of the
manual for $35 (thirty five) by ordering Comcode 845-660-117 last spring from:
 
    AT&T Customer Information Center
    2855 N. Franklin Road
    P.O. Box 19901
    Indianapolis, Indiana 46219-1385
 
    in the US 1-800-432-6600
    in Canada 1-800-255-1242
 
Note that the Comcode 845-660-117 above differs from the number 999-300-189IS
printed on the manual.  The manual states that it "is soley intended for use by
qualified service personnel to assist in maintaining the UNIX PC."  Included are
chapters on:
 
    -- System Features and Functions
    -- Logic Board Theory of Operation
    -- Diagnostics
    -- Logic Board Test Procedures
 
with supplements on:
 
    -- floppy tape interface
    -- RAM Comm expansion board
    -- international version
    -- DOS-73 co-processor
    -- ethernet expansion board
 
Carl C. Hoff
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1,comp.dcom.modems
From: dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold)
Subject: Re: Syncronous RS232 access to Worldblazer on 3B1?
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:08:17 GMT

From article <By17uH.HwK@hico2.westmark.com>, by kak@hico2.westmark.com (Kris A. Kugel):

In the timeframe of 3B1, there were sync comm products for the other
Convergent computers.  Typically, these might be 2780/3780 RJE terminal
emulators, and the 327x series.  I don't recall if they were also released
for the 3B1, or if the hardware was just built to accomodate the possibilty.
I don't think there would be anything exciting about a synchronous
connection to a worldblazer for general use, only to connect to a mainframe.

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From: akl@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Rob Tillotson)
Subject: WANTED: 3b1/7300 Development Set v3.51 with or without manuals
Organization: Who ya gonna call?  CloneBusters!
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:43:13 GMT

Help!  I recently bought a UnixPC, which came with a complete set of
OS disks, or so I thought.  After investigating some problems I was
having, and attempting to reinstall the OS from disk, I found out that
while the foundation set was indeed 3.51, the development set (and
text preparation and enhanced editors) were from some unspecified
previous version. (Even though the disks are labeled as 3.51...)
Needless to say, this causes untold grief, especially when trying to
do something like, say, installing a device driver.  :(

Anyway, I am looking to beg, borrow, or buy a set of development kit
disks for 3.51, to replace or copy over the bogus ones I have now.  If
you can help, PLEASE send me e-mail... my new little box is pining for
a C compiler :) :)

Thanks!
--Rob

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: adh@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Subject: Re: How much memory do I have? ...and I need an OS update...
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:56:15 GMT

In article <BxzDD2.GIq@news.iastate.edu> spam@iastate.edu (mike begley) writes:
"I thought I had a 7300 with 1 meg of memory, but I was always confused
"by the boot message:
"
"Read mem: 524288
"Avail mem: 299008
"
"So, out of curiousity, I opened up my machine and found on the motherboard
"an 8x9 bank of 64K chips (totalling 512 K) and in one of the slots below
"the motherboard a board with an identical amount of memory.
"
"So, what does the message I get on boot really  mean?  Is my machine unable
"to find the extra 512K?

you should:
1.	remove and reseat the mem card, to clean its connector.
2.	get the diagnostic disk and run the mem tests.

btw, with a pile of 256K chips [and sockets] and a little time [;^>],
you can upgrade your machine to 4M ram.

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Andrew Hay	|		one step beyond the outer limits  of	       |
a_d_hay@att.com	|		the twilight zone in the darkened room	       |
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