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From: pcb@gunfight.austin.ibm.com (Peter C. Bahrs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 1.x on IBM clone ?
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:18:24 GMT
Organization: *IX Open Systems, IBM Boca Raton

In article <1992Sep16.131101.29765@dk.oracle.com> bengsig@dk.oracle.com (Bjorn Engsig) writes:
>Article <18gv30INNqt7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> by bi927@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Yi Jin) says:
>|
>|I have an AT clone 486DX-33 and I'd like to run AIX on it. A while ago
>|someone pointed out that only version 1.x can run on a IBM clone. My
>|question is: What are hardware requirements for AIX 1.0 to run aon a AT
>|clone, 4MB RAM? 8MB RAM, or 16MB ram? 100MB or 200 MB or larger hard 
>|drives?
>You need an MCA bus, so basicly you need a PS/2.  You also need as an
>absolute minimum 4Mb of memory and 100Mb of disk.
Not true, AIX 1.3 was announced last week. We had a technology demo showing
1.3 on Compaq, Tandy, AST, and Dell machines.
I think its available on a special bid case, check with your ibm rep.
There
>|Does 1.x includes DOS emulation, XWindows? Will Fortran and C compilers
>|for the newer versions work on it? 
>1.2 has X11R3 and two C compilers. X11R4 or R5 are said to compile
>easily, but I don't have the disk-space to do it.
>|
>|How do one compares AIX 1.0 with AIX 3.2?
>They share the name and a few basic ideas.  AIX 1.0 is quite old, the
>newest is 1.2 plus updates, and works fine for me as a workstation.
>
AIX 1.3 runs DOS Merge from Locus Computing; DOS 5.0.  It can run
flight simulators and I was told windows in real mode.
As far as stability and function, AIX 1.3 is light years past any
other version of AIX on Intel platforms.
X11R5 and Motif 1.1.3 were also announced.  There are two compilers,
the IBM compiler and Metaware 2.2.

We also showed (at Unix Expo) plans for the follow on based on OSF and
the Mach 3.0 micro kernel.  Very very cool stuff.  We have a unix and
a dos running on the microkernel.
>Why would you use 1.0?
>-- 
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>
>Memory used by any program is constant in time, if memory is counted in dollars.



Thanks for your time,
Peter

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From: hersh@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Jay Hersh)
Subject: Re: Mixing graPHIGS and ISO-phigs?
Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:16:47 GMT

pfuetz@igd.fhg.de (Matthias Pfuetzner) writes:

>In article <hersh.717709355@xenon.lcs.mit.edu> hersh@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Jay Hersh) writes:
>>wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO)) writes:
>>
>>>Is it possible to add these feautures to my ISO-phigs programs, e.g.
>>>using graPHIGS calls? (all right, I know this reduces portability to a
>>>low level, but I just have to live with that).
>>
>>PHIGS keeps state, and so using two different PHIGS implementations
>>simultaneously is not likely to work.

>This is not right in the case of graPHIGS. What Marcel was trying to say was
>that within the same libphigs, there are ISO c-binding and the older graPHIGS
>c-bindings. You can mix them, I'm doing this also. I can't see the problem
>Marcel has, so Marcel, can you be a bit more precise?

Yes, indeed I did not understand Marcel's query, thanks. I think Karl Schultz
(of IBM) did answer this...

	Jay Hersh
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From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk (McRamm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: X11R5 on RS/6000 under AIX3.1.?????
Date: 5 Oct 92 18:46:46 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

I've been trying to install X11R5 on our RS/6000 Mdl 530 for about a week now.
So far everything has gone ok until I try to start the Xibm server. This always
fails, reporting an unresolved reference "aixgsc".

I hadn modified the makefile for the server so that libsab3dm2.a would be
linked, since that's the only one I could find with any reference to aixgsc
in it at all.

Still no joy.

Since the call isn't documented in the man pages or in info-explorer as far as
I can see, could anyone point me in the right direction for a cure please?

Also - where can I find the right server to use for our X-stations, also 
attached to the Model 530 ? (Maybe I'm suffering from some misconceptions about
X here - please put me right if I am).

-- 
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From: marke@fsi-ssd.csg.ssd.fsi.com (Mark W. Easter)
Subject: Re: C/fortran interface
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:07:12 GMT
Distribution: na
	<MARKE.92Sep26104420@fsi-ssd.csg.ssd.fsi.com> <1260@curly.appmag.com>
Organization: FlightSafety-SSD, Tulsa, OK, USA

In article <1260@curly.appmag.com> pa@curly.appmag.com (Pierre Asselin) writes:
>   In <MARKE.92Sep26104420@fsi-ssd.csg.ssd.fsi.com>
>           marke@fsi-ssd.csg.ssd.fsi.com (Mark W. Easter) writes:
>
>   >Bunk!  This is not uncommon and every major UNIX FORTRAN and C
>   >compiler (I do not include intel related junk here, sorry) does
>   >document the interlanguage interface (XLC does a marvelous job!).
>
>   Oh?  In a C routine, how do I write to a file that was OPENed by Fortran?
>   Oops.

Then further on ...

>   Fortunately much of the Fortran-code-out-there crunches numbers from
>   memory to memory.  It is *fairly safe* to mix such code with C.  But I
>   stick to my guiding principle:  the more intimately you mix system
>   operations between the C and Fortran portions, the more exquisite your
>   nightmares will be when you move to a different machine --or OS
>   release!

Oops is right!  99.9% of the FORTRAN I work with merely crunches
numbers, so my blinders were on.  I think both our points stand.

>   DISCLAIMER:  I'm still at 2006.  The specifics may have changed in
>   3.2.x  --which would only make my case stronger.
>
>   (We have a moratorium on upgrades until our new site adminstrator
>   starts next week.  It's a lot of fun reading the "PTF hell" thread
>   with a free mind :-)

Funny you should mention this.  I am the sysadmin here, but we have
delayed going to 3.2 until we finish a major project currently
underway.  This decision was made because I didn't want to take a
chance on slowing an entire R&D (react and deployment) team while I
fought with new rev problems.  Popping up the comp.unix.aix subject
index every day and consistently seeing "PTF hell" has made me feel
real good about the decision to wait and real apprehensive about what
I'm in for when the time does come ;-)
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From: kincer@hagar.endicott.ibm.com (Mike Kincer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Using a PC as an X-terminal?
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:31:17 GMT
Reply-To: kincer@owgvm6.vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM FSC Owego

In article <25SEP199204151778@mary.fordham.edu>,
bdowning@mary.fordham.edu (Brian Downing) writes:
|> 
|>  Hello,
|> We have a Gateway 386-33DX w/4M ram sitting next to our RS/6000-320.
|> If anyone's been able to use a PC as an X-terminal I'd like to hear
|> about it. I seem to recall someone having mentioned it before. I have
|> to use public domain code only. I will probably be able to pick up
|> the Ethernet card for less then $150. Is 4Megs going to be enough
|> ram even if it does work? 
|> 
|> Thanks
|> 
|> brian downing bdowning@mary.fordham.edu fordham university new york city
|> Yow!  Am I in Milwaukee?

As far as public domain software goes, there isn't much out there.
As I see it, you have two choices (per UNIX EXPO last week).
1. IBM AIX 1.3 runs on IBM and clones.
2. Desqview/X - a dos-based X server.  ($100 at the show)


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Kincer@owgvm6.vnet.ibm.com       __   \<,        /    irrespective of my
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From: eddjp@edi386.huber.com ( Dewey Paciaffi )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX malloc and fault tolerance
Date: 27 Sep 92 17:05:45 GMT
Organization: J.M. Huber Corp., Edison, NJ

In article <MYCROFT.92Sep24193931@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
-
-In article <1992Sep24.112406.24130@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de>
-malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Malte Uhl) writes:
->
-> Let me just mention that our Suns (after applying the oblicatory
-> patches) *never* crashed. I mean, the medium uptime between crashes
-> is measured in months not hours.
-
-Maybe you should tell that to the piece-o'-junk SPARC 2 I use, running
-SunOS 4.1.2.  It's basically useless as anything other than an X
-terminal.

That's funny, I get the same behavior out of my SPARC 2 boxes that Malte
gets, and I use my RS6000 220 as an Xterminal into the Sparc. It looks
good running OW3 ;-).


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Dewey Paciaffi      eddjp@huber.com
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From: ivan@ne.ncsu.edu (Ivan Maldonado)
Subject: Trading /usr size for page-space
Reply-To: ivan@nepjt.ne.ncsu.edu (Ivan Maldonado)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 21:22:25 GMT


Thank you very much to those of you who replied in regard to the
upgrade procedure. The installation of the new 32Mb board went 
very smoothly on one of our machines because we already
had sufficient page-space available there.

On the other machine, however, we don't have enough page-space OR
free LPs/PPs.  Thus, I now face the task of reducing the size of
the /usr filesystem to allocate more page-space to the machine.  This
is true because our 0.7Gb external SCSI disk is plugged to the other 
machine (which we access through NFS) so we can't use that for disk
for page-space.

If someone has the FAQ for this newsgroup, which I believe has the
reduction of /usr procedure in there, or the procedure itself, please
e-mail it to me or post it.

Thank you, again.

-Ivan Maldonado (ivan@nepjt.ne.ncsu.edu)
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From: frank@leopard.austin.ibm.com (Frank Feuerbacher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: 'installp' to other dir than /usr/lpp ?
Date: 25 Sep 92 17:34:37 GMT
Reply-To: frank@austin.ibm.com
Organization: "Personal Systems Programming, IBM Austin"
Originator: frank@leopard.austin.ibm.com


In article <1992Sep25.082443.29454@fwi.uva.nl>, wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO)) writes:

> We are running out of space on /usr, but have plenty of room left
> on /var. Is it possible to install new optional program products in
> a different directory than /usr/lpp ? 

You could create a symbolic link in /usr/lpp/<prod_name> to /var/xxx.  There was a bug
in installp that would not follow the link when doing its size calculations.  I think
that if you mount /var/xxx on /usr/lpp/<prod_name> that it should work.  Later you
could change the mount to a symbolic link.  If you want the installp fix, I would call
support and ask for a fix to what I described.  I don't have the PTF number handy.

It is possible that the bulk of the files are not restored in /usr/lpp/<prod_name>.  To
find out where they go, look at the file /usr/lpp/<prod_name>/*.size and it will list
the amount of space used on a directory basis.  I think the size is 1K units, but it
may be 512.

> Is this is possible, is it possible for common users (not just root)
> to do something similar to 'installp' ? (At least, if no messing with
> files in /bin etc. is onvolved).

You must be root to use installp.
-- 
- Frank Feuerbacher


Disclaimer: I speak only for me!  And I don't even do a good job of that!
From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Termcap entry for RS-6000 console ?
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:20:41 GMT
Reply-To: woan@cactus.org
Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks

In article <crow.717708865@waterloo.austin.ibm.com> crow@austin.ibm.com writes:
>bkr@drdhh.hanse.de (Bjoern Kriews) writes:
>>Since I don't want to spend much time on this task,
>>I'd be glad if anyone could help me out with a termcap
>>entry for the RS6000 console ?
>
>    Section 13.1 of /usr/lpp/bos/bsdadm contains such a beast.

Or extract it out of /usr/lib/libtermcap/termcap.src

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From: Dean.Roth <Dean.Roth@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: u-emacs under AIX 3.2 - problems. Solutions?
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 00:36:58 GMT


I have a copy of micro-emacs. It built and runs fine under
SCO UNIX.  It built O.K. under AIX 3.2, and runs, but is
blind and deaf. Nothing typed is displayed. And everything that
is typed is ignored. I've tried the usual "tricks" to get 
software to work under AIX (compile with -D_BSD, etc.), but
no go. Solutions?  Thank you.

Dean
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From: air4114a@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Carr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.software-eng,comp.infosystems
Subject: Software Configuration/Version Control Tools
Date: 4 Oct 92 03:09:37 GMT
Reply-To: air4114a@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Carr)
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

Folks,

1.  We are looking for a software configuration control/version
control tool kit for execution in an IBM RS/6000 AIX environment.

2.  There appear to be a lot of options ranging from SCCS and RCS
(I don't know what these acronyms stand for) to commercial
products which are derivatives of the aforementioned.

3.  We are looking for a commercial product which will make
software configuration control/version control as simple as
possible in a TCP/IP networked environment.  We desire that this
product be already fielded and proven in an IBM RS/6000 AIX
environment, and not some beta test that is COMING TO AN RS/6000
NEAR YOU SOON!

4.  From literature, it appears that at least one product
advertises problem tracking/trouble report functionality, and
this is desireable, but not required.  We have also looked at
ShapeTools from the Technical University of Berlin.  I think we
would prefer a commercial product that makes life as simple and
automatic as possible for us.

5.  If you have any direct experience with commercial software
configuration control/version control tools, we would appreciate
hearing from you.  Any and all suggestions welcome.

6.  Please forward responses directly to:
air4114a@oasys.dt.navy.mil

Very Respectfully,
Steve Carr
CDR, SC, USN
Naval Air Systems Command (AIR-4114A)
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire)
Subject: Re: max fs size
Organization: University of Montana
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:32:14 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.143656.13323@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> woan@cactus.org writes:
>In article <zh_pw1s_@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de> ente@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de (Karsten Winkovics) writes:
>>Waht is the maximum file system size under AIX3.2???
>
>2GB currently, I believe.
>
I'm not so sure about this. I currently have a filesystem defined at 2.1G.
I looked for some info about max size, but couldn't find any. So far it
hasn't come close (1.6G) to filling up. If there is a maximum and it is
2G and there are problems I'll run into with this, would somone please 
help out with an explanation?

Charlie McGuire
Computer Science
The Univserity of Montana
mcguire@huckle.cs.umt.edu
From: emillion@sobeco.com (E.J.Millions)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: RS/6000 model 220 - how good is it?
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:20:58 GMT
Organization: Sobeco Inc., Montreal, Canada.

In <1992Sep18.113353.24461@fwi.uva.nl> wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO)) writes:

>Hi,

>The subject says it all:
>	How good is the IBM RS/6000 model 220?
>I mean:
>(a) compared to similar products from other vendors
>(b) are there any problems using it
>(c) is it compatible with other RS/6000 models
>    (especially the 730)?

>Thanks in advance for replying,
>Marcel.
>-- 

We're having major problems in terms of compatibility between our
350s and our 220s. We are using the 220s for demoing software (pension plan
stuff written in C) compiled on the development machine (350). The lastest
level of the code now coredumps on the 220, but runs on the 350. The 
machines are as follows:

350 - 3.2.0, 32Mg          and      350 - 3.2.1, 64Mg
220 - 3.2.2, 16Mg standalone     and     220 - 3.2.0, 16Mg standalone

The 220 is at 3.2.2 because IBMs first crack at resolving the problem was to
recommend upgrading the 220 from 3.2.0 to 3.2.2. The problem occurs at both
levels of the OS.

Looking at the core with dbx gives:

[using memory image in core]

illegal instruction (reserved addressing fault) in . at 0x10006bf0
0x10006bf0 (???) 80410014          l   r2,0x14(r1)
(dbx) t
sig_raise(0x4) at 0x10006bf0
sig_capture__(0x4, 0x0, 0x2ff7e8d0) at 0x10007c54
(dbx) list
could not read "fcntl.c"

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
EjM
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From: "Praveen N. Tallam" <p00089@mail.psi.net>
Subject: Limit on number of Open Files in system
Organization: Dr. Kuo & Associates
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:12:24 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink (3.11)

On using the 220 and opening 

1 - ordinary file
2 - semaphores
9 - shared memory segments

I get error message 23 ENFILE <Too many open files in system>.
I know attaching a shared memory segment is treated as a memory mapped 
file and will count toward the number of " open files" held by a 
program. Is there any way to change this limitation on the RS 6000 ? 

Thanking You in advance......
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From: tik@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Tsei Kuo)
Subject: AIX Kernel Debugger
Summary: debugger	
Keywords: aix
 
 
 
Organization: North Carolina State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:08:49 GMT
From: jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Comments wanted on an AIX configuration
Date: 2 Oct 92 12:33:59 GMT

Here at Duke Electrical Engineering we have 4 RS/6000s: a 320 (research),
two 320Hs (ferry and groat), and a 350 (ee).  The 320 and 350 are stand-alone
machines.  The 320Hs are /usr clients of the 320.  Virtually all of my
customization is stored on one disk area on the 350, which is our central
server/multi-user host.  A lot of data files (passwd,group,services,etc.)
are served via NIS/YP.

What this does is allow me to minimize the overhead involved in setting up
my machines.  Thus, while most people had to deal with upgrading from 3.1.x
to 3.2, I simply backed up my system and installed 3.2 from scratch.  PTFs
usually have to be installed on the two standalone machines, except for
those that modify the root partition.  All in all it seems to work pretty
well.

-John
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From: xinmin@cain.anu.edu.au (Xinmin Wang)
Subject: Xarchie on IBM Xstation
Organization: School of Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 06:42:28 GMT

Does anybody have the experience of running xarchie on the IBM Xstation 120?
I have a problem of displaying it. Currently there is no typing cursor in the
`search term' box so nothing appears when I type the keyword I want to search
for. This Xstation's host is a RISC/6000 running AIX 3.2 and has got X11R5
installed. Xarchie works fine on the host's console and other kind of X 
terminals connected to the same host. Therefore I assume that xarchie has been 
installed properly and the problem might lie in the Xstation configuration or
X11R5 configuration.

Any suggestions are welcome.
From: giao@harpo.seas.ucla.edu (Giao N. Tran)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Help with recursive patching !...
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:29:20 GMT
Organization: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, UCLA


  Greeting !....

  I'm having problem with recursive patching. 
   
  Case 1:        diff -c  [dir1]  [dir2] > patch01 
                 patch < patch01

           works fine.
                 
   Case 2:       diff -c -r [dir1]  [dir2] > patch01 
                 patch < patch01

            patch stops at the subdirectories and asks for the name of
            patchfile !.

   Would anyone help me with the recursive patching, please ?.  
   Thanks for any help.

---G.T.
    
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