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From: ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore)
Subject: Re: symlinks and ISC 3.0
Organization: American Micro Group, Ft. Lee  NJ
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:20:25 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.140424.7967@infko.uucp> arndt@infko.uni-koblenz.de  writes:
>Hi,
>
>with the new release of INTERACTIVE UNIX 3.0 nfs (V2.2) came the automounter. 
>This program can create symbolic links.
>
>Now my question is, can I use this feature too?
>
>I've found a symlink call in libc, but that gives me used within an nfs-mounted
>filesystem or not allways "invalid argument". In some headerfiles You can 
>find information about symbolic links ("/usr/include/sys/{namei.h,inode.h}").
>
>
>Thanks
>	Uwe

As per the release notes, this feature is for compatibility with 
systems that do have symlinks, and to reduce problems with spurious
error messages. But NFS 2.2 does not give the OS symlinks.

-- 
Ed Whittemore   uunet!maxed!ed   ed@maxed.amg.com
American Micro Group, Inc.   201-944-3293
From: gu_jc3@stu.ust.hk (GU)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: setup uucp under SCO SysV R3.2.4 HELP
Date: 30 Sep 92 02:45:14 GMT
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Need advices on setting up uucp and dialin access under SCO SysV R3.2.4.

I use i486 PC with standard dumb AT I/O card connected a Telebit T2500
to com1, registers setting of the T2500 as follow:

E0 F1 M0 Q4 T V1 W0 X3 Y0 &P0 &T4     Version GF7.00-T2500SA
S00=001 S01=000 S02=043 S03=013 S04=010 S05=008 S06=002 S07:060 S08=002 S09=006
S10=007 S11=070 S12=050 S18=000 S25=005 S26=000 S38=000
S41=000 S45=000 S47=004 S48:001 S49=000
S50=000 S51:254 S52:002 S54:003 S55=000 S56=017 S57=019 S58:002 S59=000
S61:001 S62=003 S63=001 S64=000 S65=000 S66:001 S67=000 S68=255 S69=000
S90=000 S91=000 S92:001 S93=008 S94=001 S95=000 S96=001 S97=000 S98=003
S100=000 S101=000 S102=000 S104=000 S105=001 S106:001 S107=020 
S110=255 S111=255 S112=001 
S121=000 S130=002 S131:001 
S150=000 S151=004 S152=001 S153=001 S154=000 S155=000 S157=000 S158=000 
S160=010 S161=020 S162=002 S163=003 S164=007 S169=000 S255=000 
OK

/usr/lib/uucp/Devices:

Direct tty1A - 19200 direct
ACU tty1A - 19200 dialTBIT \T

/usr/lib/uucp/Systems:

olisc Any tty1A 19200 - in:--in: nuucp word: nuucp

"cu -ltty1A" works fine, no problem to direct communicate with the modem and
dialup to remote system.

"uutry -r olisc" got connected and got "" , however, when uucico send
"^M", something returned by looking at the Rx LED but uutry can not
recognize the return string  i.e. "in:", I saw a "^J" display in respond
to "^M" instead of the "login:" prompt and process aborted after time
out.

I also modified /etc/inittab:

Se1:2:respawn:/usr/lib/uucp/uugetty -t 60 tty1A n

(n refer to a 19200 N81 entry inside /etc/gettydefs)

then inti q.

Dialup to tty1A got connected at 9600 but no "login:" prompt or even a
single character display on the screen ...  I use "cu -ltty1A" talk to
to the T2500 directly, some garbages output immediately and what I type
to the T2500 got transfer to the other end without any error.  I really,
got no idea where the problem come from...

Samson Luk (gu_jc3@uxmail.ust.hk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.sys5.misc
From: husain@rtsg.mot.com (Saad Husain)
Subject: SCO OD 1.1 for sale.
Summary: SCO OD 1.1 for sale.
Keywords: SCO,Unix,SysV,X11,Motif,Open Desktop,386
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 22:28:58 GMT

SCO Unix SysV.3 with X11, Motif and Open Desktop for sale.  This is the
2 user package and comes with NFS and full man pages.  This is the older
version (X11R3) but can be upgraded to the newer version (X11R4) as
it is unregistered and in excellent condition.  Do not reply but
instead call at 708-888-3813.

-- 
==Saad Husain==(708)632-3259==husain@cyan.rtsg.mot.com==All this is all mine==
Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants;
and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have
always fallen. Always.  - M.K. Gandhi, Lawyer, philosopher & peace activist.
Xref: sparky comp.unix.sysv386:15177 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:245 comp.unix.sys5.r4:127
From: zeke@fasttech.uucp (Bohdan Tashchuk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4
Subject: Re: uucp g protocol tuning parameters -- help cutting phone bills!
Date: 3 Oct 92 18:30:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: fasttech.1992Oct3.183059.7346
Organization: Fast Technology

In <1992Oct3.072415.19296@weyrich.UUCP> orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:

> I am very interested in improving my transmission speed for uucp -- I have a
> Hayes Optima that should be capable of at least 960 cps [more with
> compression], but I am only getting about 500 cps out of my
> [long distance -- I pay  for it!]
> link to uunet. I get about  900 cps out of a local link.

I was probably born cynical, but my first thought is to be suspicious of uunet.
They've acknowledged in the past that their thruput doesn't come close to what
it should be. They've set goals for themselves to improve this.

BUT, they charge low volume users by the minute, not a fixed rate, and not by
the byte. I'm SURE their thruput would be much different if they charged ONLY
by the byte.

Given their current pricing, their optimum business strategy would be to have
as poor a thruput as possible without disgusting you so much that you would
drop them for another alternative.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
Subject: Re: Destiny vs ODT vs Dell vs ESIX
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:50:28 GMT
Keywords: Destiny ODT SCO Dell ESIX

In article <1992Oct6.135526.19210@rwwa.COM> witr@rwwa.com writes:
> In article <1992Oct5.211306.6420@crd.ge.com>, 
>   davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
> 
> |   Sun claims that they have left in all the includes and stuff you will
> | need to drop in gcc, providing you compile it on some bootstrap machine
> | to run on SunOS and emit Solaris code, or some such hack. 
> 
> This is what other vendors did when they tried to make the CCS optional.
> 
> A large subset of the include files *have* to be supplied to allow building
> of 3rd party device drivers.
> 
> -- 
> Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430, Net: witr@rwwa.COM
> R.W. Withrow Associates, 21 Railroad Ave, Swampscott MA 01907-1821 USA


Well, I've been running the Sparc implementation of Solaris 2 for a couple
of months now.  We have both the Gnu C Compiler (from Cygnus) and the Sun
C compiler installed, although we will be sticking with the Gnu compiler
when we get into production.  Everything you need for software generation
is present except the compiler and debugger.  All the libraries, headers,
and utilities (as, nm, ld, etc) are all there.

However - 3rd party drivers for Solaris 2 had better either come as object
modules or include a compiler.  There are NO space.c files any more.  The
driver interfaces and kernel building bear little resemblance to what you
are familiar with on SVR4.  This is the most striking difference between
USL SVR4 and Solaris 2 that I have seen.

I haven't seen the Intel Solaris 2 yet, so this may be different.  But
I doubt it.  My guess is that this is why SunSoft has been having problems
with Intel device support - they can't use the stock drivers from the
Interactive SVR4.  Someone who actually knows can correct me if I'm wrong.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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AT&T Bell Laboratories      | ...!att!mtgzfs3!dwex  |   cheeseburger!
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Subject: Re: ISC Unix SysV3.2 rel. 2.2.1 login problem
Keywords: login
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 11:19:39 GMT

marwood@hq.crad.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood) writes:

>The symptom of the problem is that, when attempting to login, characters 
>have to be typed in several times before they echo.  The login is not 
>accepted under these conditions, and it is necessary to power down and 
>re-boot.

This is a symptom of a serial port battle.  If you have two systems
connected via a serial port (or a modem on the system), what can happen 
is that the getty sends out the welcome banner and the modem echos it
back to the system.  This process cycles and starts taking up more and 
more system resources (most notably clists) causing you to loose 
characters from other i/o mechanisms.

The immediate solution is to reset the offending modem or disconnect the
offending serial connection.   A more long term solution depends upon
the exact environment you are running.

-- 
*** SENTINEL(tm) The ultimate Debugging Environment - email for more info ***

Conor P. Cahill              (703)430-9247            cpcahil@virtech.vti.com
Virtual Technologies, Inc.  46030 Manekin Plaza          Dulles, VA 20166 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: fred@cv.ruu.nl (Fred Appelman)
Subject: Re: Is the jmp_buf array documented on SVR4?
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 18:23:10 GMT
Organization: University of Utrecht, 3D Computer Vision Research Group

In <1992Oct2.211936.18080@sinkhole.unf.edu> shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite) writes:


>  Could someone please post what the 10 values for jmp_buf on an
>i386 SVR4 mean?  IMHO, AT&T should have documented in a comment
>(in setjmp.h) what each integer in the jmp_buf array represents.  

I Don't have an answer for you, but I wonder why you want to know this. Isn't 
the whole idea of the jumpbuffers that you can use them *without* knowing
what they represent. All the system dependencies are hidden by the compiler
implementor. 

	Fred
From: shih@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (The Nomad)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: G++ library binaries?
Date: 3 Oct 92 00:52:22 GMT
Distribution: comp.unix.sysv386
Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Hello again, netlanders,

Thanks for all those who help me in getting
gcc binaries. However, after untar it
I realize that there is no c++ libraries.
I did download the src of libg++. However
there are strange errors:

gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1plus got fatal signal 6

Is there a site for libg++ ? I trace all the ftp sites that people
gave me but came up empty handed


Anyinfo is greatly appreciated...
From: MCGEE@lecs.ericsson.se ("Don H. McGee")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: mmdf and it's damn files
Date: 1 Oct 92 23:26:00 GMT

Does ANYBODY out there truly understand mmdf and it's plethora of
little files ???

Seriously, is there available a reference, preferably on-line, for
the setup of the .dom and .chn files, along with mmdftailor. I am 
using SCO System V rel. 3.2, with SCO TCP/IP. No matter how I attempt
to setup the files, anything that I send via the smtp channel gets 
queued forever (till it is returned). 

Also, the domain names are seriously screwed up at our site. Does the
smtp protocol attempt to validate the domain name of the target machine
(this might be part of my problem, if so). 

Editorial comment:   While much of the SCO documentation is fairly 
good (the parts copied from AT&T), the mmdf setup descriptions are
pitiful. 

Thanks much for any help offered. Please followup to comp.unix.sysv386
or email to ecudhm@erigate.ericsson.se . 

Don McGee        ecudhm@erigate.ericsson.se
Global Applications Engineering
Ericsson GE Mobile Communications
Lynchburg, VA
From: s900387@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Craig Macbride)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Everex STEP display driver
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:55:15 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

I once saw mention that someone had written a kernel driver to access the
display panel on Everex STEP machines. If anyone has such a driver for
SCO Unix and/or SCO Xenix, or knows anything about it, please let me
know.

-- 
 _--_|\		Craig Macbride	<lhscmc@luxor.latrobe.edu.au>
/      \			<s900387@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
\_.--.*/
      v
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: unix sugestions on pc
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix & Think_Tank BBS
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 14:32:33 GMT

In article <BvKHMD.71z@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>jle9162@zeus.tamu.edu (ECKHARDT, JASON LEE) writes:
>
>>  The only unix I can think of where you will get all that mentioned above
>>for under $1000 is Consensys UNIX SVR4. I have a friend thats been using
>>it for a while with no problems, an excellent product. $795
>
>Likewise, Dell I believe is $999 -- and Dell works.

Has Dell lowered their prices again?  The last time I checked, it was $1295.


-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: markmc@halcyon.com (Mark McWiggins)
Subject: Spontaneous tape-related reboots on 486/33
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 08:39:27 GMT

I'm one of those Interactive SVR4 users orphaned when they withdrew
it from the market; originally bought Intel SVR4 in an explicit effort
to avoid being an Interactive customer. *sigh*

On top of that misfortune, I recently had a power supply die and take
my 386 motherboard with it. I bought a new 486/33 which seemed to work
wonderfully ...

.... until I tried installing Interactive SVR4 onto the recently
repartitioned disk. The machine reboots itself at random points in the
installation procedure, always in the middle of its running the tape drive.
This makes me suspect some sort of timing problem, but I'm not too much
of a hardware tech and I don't know how to proceed from this point.

I have an Adaptec 1542 SCSI, 340 MB disk, and Archive 2150S tape.

Any ideas? Does timing sound right? Is there some BIOS parameter I should 
try tweaking first? Anybody else had a similar problems? In general, how
would you go about tracking this down?

Thanks in advance. And watch for my new book "Destructive
Visualization".

-- 
Mark McWiggins        Hermes & Associates		+1 206 632 1905 (voice)
markmc@halcyon.com    Box 31356, Seattle WA 98103-1356  +1 206 632 1738 (fax)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: pizzi@nervous.com (Riccardo Pizzi)
Subject: seeking X386 database entry for 60Mhz clock VGA card...
Followup-To: poster
Reply-To: pizzi@nervous.com (Riccardo Pizzi)
Organization: The Nervous XTC Public Access Unix System, Rimini, ITALY
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 02:25:10 GMT

Hi there,

I'm now playing with XFree86 (X386 1.2E rel. 1.0.2).
Upon startup the server tells me the highest clock my ET4000-based card
has is 60 MHz... this makes me suppose that I am kinda limited in
resolution and/or refresh rate. The card is a noname (generic) taiwan card.
I am looking for some tested timings for a clock of 60 MHz, I would prefer
resolutions like 1024x768, but any hint will be appreciated.

Many thanks in advance,

Rick
-- 
Riccardo Pizzi @ the Nervous XTC Public Access Unix System, Rimini, ITALY
E-Mail -> pizzi@nervous.com        <*>      Bang-path -> uunet!nervous!pizzi
Nervous XTC, the home of the UniBoard package * Data: +39-541-27135 HST/PEP/V32
From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Destiny vs ODT vs Dell vs ESIX
Date: 30 Sep 1992 14:45:13 -0500
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu
Summary: It doesn't answer any question.
Keywords: Destiny ODT SCO Dell ESIX

-*----
In article <BvEKyv.LJ4@portal.hq.videocart.com> kdenning@portal.hq.videocart.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
> I saw Destiny at Xhibition. I tried:
>
> cc -s -o test test.c
> cc: not found
>
> Does that answer your question?

Answer *what* question?  That the path was screwed up in the
shell you were using?  That the C compiler had been deleted 
from that particular system?  

Who cares?

It is clear that some of the vendors selling SVr4.2 will peddle
different packages, some with and some without the development
tools (such as the C compiler).  Except for its effect on
pricing, I don't see why this is an issue.  (Note that Sun is
unbundling their C compiler with the release of Solaris 2.0.)

Russell
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: unix sugestions on pc
Date: 3 Oct 92 22:39:48 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: The Gator Conferencing System 219-289-3745

jle9162@zeus.tamu.edu (ECKHARDT, JASON LEE) writes:

>  The only unix I can think of where you will get all that mentioned above
>for under $1000 is Consensys UNIX SVR4. I have a friend thats been using
>it for a while with no problems, an excellent product. $795

Likewise, Dell I believe is $999 -- and Dell works.

-- 
Larry Snyder                                    internet: larry@gator.rn.com
keeper of the Gator                                  uucp: uunet!gator!larry
Xref: sparky comp.unix.sysv386:15041 comp.unix.sys5.r4:67 comp.unix.sys5.r3:7 biz.comp.software:151
From: jlw@improb.cls.com (Jeff Wannamaker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: unix sugestions on pc
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 92 22:20:31 CDT
Organization: Improbability Drive

larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:

> jle9162@zeus.tamu.edu (ECKHARDT, JASON LEE) writes:
> 
> >  The only unix I can think of where you will get all that mentioned above
> >for under $1000 is Consensys UNIX SVR4. I have a friend thats been using
> >it for a while with no problems, an excellent product. $795
> 
> Likewise, Dell I believe is $999 -- and Dell works.
> 

Dell is supposedly very good but is approx. 1,200 beans for an unlimited user
license.  I also understand that if you aren't running it on a Dell machine,
your support is not as good when you run into incompatibilities with the
hardware.

--
Jeff Wannamaker, jlw@improb.cls.com  OR  ...!uunet!cls!improb!jlw
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: have: u386mon for SVR4
Date: 3 Oct 92 22:18:28 GMT
Organization: The Gator Conferencing System 219-289-3745

jack@admin.mport.COM (Jack Craig) writes:

>do you also have access to src? i for one would like to have access
>to your src. svr4 doesnt have much more than sar for users.

Dell ships top which is quite handy at monitoring kernel performance
and memory usage.  It comes on on their distiribution tape, and works
rather well.

-- 
Larry Snyder                                    internet: larry@gator.rn.com
keeper of the Gator                                  uucp: uunet!gator!larry
From: debra@wsinis07.info.win.tue.nl (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Unix "Lite" is not so light
Date: 1 Oct 92 11:08:59 GMT
Reply-To: debra@info.win.tue.nl
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

In article <2979@news.cerf.net> jde@esix.everex.com (Jeff Ellis) writes:
>...
>BTW What features are important for you people to buy 4.2? 
>(in short what should Esix do to get you to buy?)
>We are talking about adding a Colorado memory tape driver and maybe shipping
>it on DC20?? type tapes as a option. 

Several people have mentioned in this newsgroup that they have some
old AT-bus memory laying around they would like to use as a ramdisk.
Although this memory is much too slow to use as main memory it is still
a lot faster than a disk, so it would be useful for a /tmp filesystem.

A FAQ has been how to tell the ramdisk driver to use a specific address-range.
The question has always been that you can't.

A ramdisk driver that can optionally be given the memory range to use would
make a very useful addition, especially if it would move used pages to free
the given memory range for use by the ramdisk driver.

Also important is the available range of media the system ships on.
Esix has been one of the few that can still be installed from floppies
or a 60Mbyte tape.
Many people can afford only one backup device (not counting floppies).
If I were to buy a new PC and a Unix for it I would only buy a backup device
from which Unix can be installed.
Shipping device drivers for backup devices from which Esix cannot be installed
is not very useful. So please do make the system installable from all supported
backup media.

Thanks for listening to (potential and current) users.

Paul.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
Subject: Re: Destiny vs ODT vs Dell vs ESIX
Keywords: Destiny ODT SCO Dell ESIX
Reply-To: witr@rwwa.com
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:55:26 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.211306.6420@crd.ge.com>, 
  davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:

|   Sun claims that they have left in all the includes and stuff you will
| need to drop in gcc, providing you compile it on some bootstrap machine
| to run on SunOS and emit Solaris code, or some such hack. 

This is what other vendors did when they tried to make the CCS optional.

A large subset of the include files *have* to be supplied to allow building
of 3rd party device drivers.

-- 
 Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430, Net: witr@rwwa.COM
 R.W. Withrow Associates, 21 Railroad Ave, Swampscott MA 01907-1821 USA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: donp@mail.boi.hp.com (Don Peterson)
Subject: How do you format a SCSI hard disk in SCO 3.2.4?
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:42:54 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard

Forgive me if this is in a FAQ, but I haven't seen it (the FAQ).  I have
SCO 3.2.4 running on an HP Vectra 486/25 with an Adaptec 1542 hba.  I
would like to be able to format a second disk drive (/dev/rhd10) that
I add to the system.  For that matter, I'd also appreciate knowing
how to format the primary hard drive (/dev/rhd00) when you start from 
the root & boot floppies.

Please e-mail me at donp@hpbs1639.boi.hp.com.

Thanks!