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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 21:18:20 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <1992Apr08.063938.22542@visual.spk.wa.us> ssanbeg@visual.spk.wa.us (Scott Sanbeg) writes:
>In article <1992Apr5.2092.2432@dosgate> "bradley grigor" <bradley.grigor@canrem.com> writes:
>>I am considering getting Coherent for my home machine (I'm cheap)
>>to support some work I'm doing at the office under SCO UNIX
>>System V/386.  Can Coherent and SCO exchange tar or mountable
>>diskettes?  Is Coherent sufficiently compatible at the library
>
>No for the mountable diskettes. Like almost all systems, which have their
>own particular filesystem formatting, SCO and Coherent's is not alike. On
>tar: Coherent tar is a V7 type, yes? SCO doesn't show anything that seems
>to deal with a V7 tar.

SCO tar should be able to deal with archives mad with both tar and ustar
on Coherent.  On the Coherent side, ustar or gnutar from MWCBBS should be
able to untar archives from SCO.  Unless SCO is broken.

I've been running Coherent for over a year, and I never actually had any
problems with tar.  I only started using ustar because of warnings here in
this group.  I have never had any problems with ustar.

Note: ustar is in /usr/bin.

>>level to allow one to develop and test some C code under Coherent
>>and then re-compile and run it under SCO?  Thanks for the help.
>
>I see no reason why not. SCO is SYSV throughout, so there will probably
>be some need (until Coherent386?) to change your #include locations. But,
>if neither that or prototyping your C code in the small-model environment
>of Coherent's poses any problem for you, then it can be done.

SCO has problems with sources from other "UNIX" systems.  These can be
alleviated by using the rcc compiler rather than cc.  The problem is that
cc is an obsolete version of Microsoft C.  Some includes may be different.

SCO really isn't SYSV throughout.

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
From: johnp@dumbcat.sf.ca.us (John Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Bay Area Coh User Group meeting
Summary: Meeting Sunday 04/12/92 11am
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:16:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: dumbcat.1992Apr8.021638.9050
Followup-To: johnp@dumbcat
Distribution: ca
Organization: MSH Software, Hayward, CA


	The (San Francisco) Bay Area Coherent User Group will
	be meeting on Sunday April 12th at 11am in San Mateo, CA.
	If you are already a member or have already contacted the 
	club, a flyer is on its way to you.
	If you would like more info, call:

	John Pierce at 415-592-1700 days or 415-578-1322 evenings.

	Or you can send mail to me at   johnp@dumbcat.  I read my mail
	Monday thru Friday so I won't see anything thats not received
	before 7pm on Friday.

	Hope to see you there.

	John Pierce
	johnp@dumbcat
From: OB77665@IBMH1.ORL.MMC.COM
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: test
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:01:06 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>>
>>Also, a more technical question...  Does Coherent allow for MS-DOS 5.0
>>partitions for its autoboot feature?  (ie. drives can now be bigger than
 32MB)
>>Thanks.
>>
>> I'm not sure about that.  I don't use MSDOS.
>>

>Coherent does quite well with MSDOS 5.0 autoboot.  I ran into to the
>problem that I had to reinstall Coherent after I did the DOS 5.0 upgrade
>because the upgrade overwrote the boot.  Luckily, the RESTORE capability
>in DOS 5 allowed me to go back to DOS 4 so I could save all of the needed
>Coherent files.

I had the same difficulty with the MSDOS5.0 upgrade even though
I specified that another OS was installed on the disk. There were
some rumors about this happening out at MWS.
So, in order to try and save myself some time I copied the MBR to a
floppy. Then once MSDOS was installed I placed it back on the harddrive.
This was an upgrade from DOS3.3 to 5.0. Below is a copy of the
debug script I used. If you your so inclined you can just redirect into
debug.

 Note: If you plan to redirect this into debug the spaces
       between the lines have to be there.

 ***********  This records the original MBR ************
 f 0100 0200 0  ; fill 0100 to 0200 with 0 's
 A 0100         ;
 mov ax,0201    ;ah 02 = read, ah 03 = write, al number of sectors
 mov bx,0200    ;define buffer area at 0200
 mov cx,0001    ;copies the from the C: drive to
 mov dx,0080    ;drive c:
 int 13         ;
 int 20         ;

 g 0110         ;

 rcx            ;enter the number of bytes to right to the disk
 0200           ;
 nmbr.dat       ; name the file
 w 0200         ; write the data a location starting at location 0200
 q              ; quit


 ******* This places it back after the Upgrade *********
 NOTE: Ensure that the mbr.dat is in the directory that
       you decide to execute this script

 f 0100 0200 0  ; fill 0100 to 0200 with 0 's
 nmbr.dat       ; name the file
 l 0200         ; load the file to location 0200
 A 0100         ;
 mov ax,0301    ;ah 02 = read, ah 03 = write, al number of sectors
 mov bx,0200    ;define buffer area at 0200
 mov cx,0001    ;writes to drive C: from 0200
 mov dx,0080    ;drive c:
 int 13         ;
 int 20         ; dos exit

 g 0110         ; executes the codes until 0110
 q              ; quit

 + ----------------------------------------------------+
 Bruce Bauer
 Martin Marietta
 Orlando, FL
 ob77665@ibmh1.orl.mmc.com
 + ----------------------------------------------------+
From: markus@mbsys.in.sub.org (Markus Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: gnews
Date: 16 Apr 92 13:29:57 GMT
Organization: mbsys (private)

I've got a problem with gnews: If I start gnewsrun, it resends all news to
my feed. Does anyone know, why ?
TNX
    Markus

--
Markus Becker  (markus@mbsys.in.sub.org)

Life is a real-time-adventure with nice sound and graphics.
But unfortunately, you can't save and restore and there's no hintbook ...
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: bolan@sdf.lonestar.org (Bolan Meek)
Subject: new Coherent, UUCP installation
Organization: sdf Public Access UNIX, Dallas--unrestricted free shell access
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 11:52:14 GMT


I have installed Coherent a couple of times this week.  I say a couple of 
times because I started getting some kernel panics:
	sel	paddr	lim	flags
ax	240	58866	1FF	0
cs	60	600	E91B	9B
ds	1F80	1F800	FFFF	93
es	4000	2C200	1FF	0
ss	1F80	1F800	FFFF	93
panic: pid0: kernel process trap: id = D00, ip = 18D9 ax = 582.
(I wasn't intending when I started the message to ask about it, but if any
knows about what this might be?...)  So I rebuilt the system, assuming I'd
probably corrupted the filesystem.
 
So, anyway...  I've uuinstalled, and have a newsfeed from sdf.lonestar.org
(I guess that's org!lonestar!sdf ??) with my site being UVEnix.  The installation
manual makes reference to executables the remote site (sdf) can run when
my site connects, being rmail and rnews.  I find rmail in ...uh.. /bin, i think
but i don't find rnews anywhere.  should this be in the distribution?  or do
I have to get rnews source and compile it myself?  if so, from whom can I get
it? 
 
BTW, the version of Coherent that has been given/indefinitely loaned to me
(complete w. manuals and original distribution disks, if anyone wonders- and
the donor did not retain the system on his PC), is 3.0.0.
also, from whom might be available source for a news reader?  or can someone
tell me what special considerations I would have to consider if I write one,
like formating or separating codes between eletters?  (you do get "eletters"
thru "email", right?  ;-D)  
anyone who is so kind and knowledgeable (sp?) so as to advise and inform me
on these topics may email me at root@UVEnix.sdf.lonestar.org or bolan@sdf.
lonestar.org.  thank you for your consideration.
From: mike@array.com (Mike Willett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: New UUCP Fun
Date: 1 Apr 92 03:33:00 GMT
Organization: Array Microsystems, Colorado Springs, CO. USA


	I recently downloaded the latest and greatest uucp from mwcbbs,
	(3.2.23S ?) and installed it.  I like the checking it does, but,
	I am having one problem that I can not seem to fix.  

	During the operation of uucp (uucico) the LCK.. files are 
	checked for existance, and that is OK, but, on my particular 
	system I do not have getty enabled on the modem.  After uucico
	runs, I find that the entry in /etc/ttys has gone from a 0
	(disabled port) to a 1 (enabled port) and my modem starts to
	argue with getty.  Since I do not use my modem for dialin, I
	should, and have, up til now, just leave getty off on that port,
	and never have a problem with the modem arguing with getty since
	getty should not be running.

	I changed the permissions on /etc/ttys to read only even for
	root, and still the entry goes from disabled to enabled. :(
	It appears that every time the uucp comes out of a completed
	conversation, failed or not, it enables the ports for getty
	and changes the /etc/ttys file. ARRRGGGG!!!! 

	Any ideas?     Has anyone ported Taylor uucp to Coherent?  
	
	How about UUPC?  :)  :)  :)

	Best Regards!  --Mike

-- 
Michael Willett, mike@array.com    uupsi!monarch!mike   uunet!csn!monarch!mike
		So much fun, so little time to enjoy it...
From: root@duncan
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Is there a better BREAK for the L.sys chat script?
Keywords: L.sys break
Date: 16 Apr 92 08:55:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: duncan.9204160452.47
Reply-To: cs.dal.ca!banke1!duncan!root (David John Murdoch)
Organization: Duncan Computer Centre and Home Brewery


	I'm using \015 to simulate a BREAK with moderate
success in COHERENT's L.sys chat scripts.

	If anyone is using a more successful method I'd
like to hear about it.

Thanks

David
-- 
__________________________________________________________________________
David Murdoch * cs.dal.ca!banke1!duncan!djm * Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: scott@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Scott Silverstein MD)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: BUSINESS ASPECTS
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:00:07 GMT

>
>A FORTRAN, COBOL and a C++ compiler are planned for the 386 version, from 3rd
>party vendors.


Hopefully, not for a jillion dollars like some companies' compilers
I know of.

Bill Gates, are you reading this??

-- SS
From: KC5314@brock1p.bitnet (Keith J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: RE:3rd party software vendors
Date: 16 Apr 92 00:46:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: INDYCMS.COHERENT%92041519460876
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

stuff deleted ......

Doug Peterson <doug@mwc.com writes

>A FORTRAN, COBOL and a C++ compiler are planned for the 386 version, from 3rd
>party vendors.

Hey Doug, any word on a Pascal compiler ??

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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: John B Harlan <jbharlan@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Coherent mailing list
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 14:18:13 -0500

In article <920411541@umunk.GUN.de> udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
>Hello all,
>i am a new news user. Would someone please tell me, what the
>Coherent mailing list is, and how to subscribe.
>Thanxs in advance.

     The Coherent list hosted on ListServ@IndyCMS.IUPUI.Edu is the
ListServ access point for this forum.  The ListServ list and this
comp.os.coherent newsgroup are bidirectionally gatewayed to each otherr
and carry the exact same traffic.

                                     John Harlan
                                     List co-owner / co-coordinator
                                     Coherent on
                                       ListServ@IndyCMS.IUPUI.Edu 

                                     JBHarlan@IndyVAX.IUPUI.Edu


Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Enabling swapping
From: mfaurot@phzzzt.uucp (Michael Faurot)
Organization: A.T.W.W.
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 01:53:39 GMT
Reply-To: mfaurot@phzzzt.UUCP (Michael Faurot)


I've been looking through the booklet that comes with the Coherent Device
Driver kit, and have been looking at the kernel variables that concern
swapping: swapdev, swapbot and swaptop.  From doing some poking around in
the kernel it appears to me that the default installation action is to disable
swapping.  I was thinking of setting up swapping on my system, but since
it came disabled, and the documentation on useage and configuration of
swapping is not terribly well documented, I was wondering if there would
be any reason why I shouldn't set it up?

Could someone please provide some help on the following points for setting
up swapping:

1)	The Device Drive kit Lexicon states, in regards to the swapbot 
	and swaptop variables:

		A partition can be shared by a file system and a swap
		region by using the first part of the file system,
		and setting swapbot and swaptop accordingly.

	Both swapbot and swaptop are supposed to be variables that relate
	to a specific block where swapping should begin and end.  How does
	one go about determining the blocks that should be used?  

2)	On other systems I've worked with, the typical rule of thumb for
	setting up swapping is to make the swap area about twice the size
	of physical memory.  Does this logic also hold true for Coherent?

3)	As mentioned above, swapping can be set up to share space with 
	a regular file system/partition.  What about setting up swap with
	its own partition?  Presumably one would allocate X amount of space
	with fdisk, but would that be all that is required?  How about running
	badscan?  I presume that Coherent, like other Unix systems, would
	not need to have mkfs create a filesystem in this newly created
	swap partition, right?

Any hints, tips or suggestions appreciated . . .
From: michael@gandalf.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: printing through a terminal
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:55:09 GMT
Reply-To: u31b3hs@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
Organization: Gandalf - a 386-20 machine

From article <1992Apr06.113003.28230@jabaru.cec.edu.au>, by d10590@tanus.cec.edu.au (Robert Chalmers):
> Can anyone tell me if its possible to send a print job to a printer attached
> to a terminal on com1l. The terminal is an old Honeywell, with a serial
> printer connected to a port on the back. It has a screen dump key, but it
> would be nice if I could direct print jobs to it.

I don't know if there is any software using such capabilities, if you want
to write your own, then you should have a look at the termcap (terminfo)
capabilities ps (mc0), pO (mc5p), pf (mc4), po (mc5).

btw: You don't own such a beast called dku7003 ?  8085 inside, exchanged
small/capital letters, label Questar|T on the front, standout glitch ... ?!?
Mine was old when I used it on my CP/M machine, and now under Linux it is
even older.

Michael
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: u8930217@golum.riv.csu.edu.au (Mr Chang)
Subject: I Give Up!!!!
Summary: Coh 386???
Organization: Charles Sturt University-Riverina, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 10:10:52 GMT


   Its been years that MWC announced the development of Coherent 386,
and now where is it??? Win 3.1, OS/2 2.00, and Desqview/X, they all have
been released. Anybody out there can you explain where is our beloved
Coherent 386?? I think I'll just have to give up!!


S.Chang
=======
Charles Sturt University-Riverina
Wagga Wagga
N.S.W.   2650
Australia.

===============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: dan@ni.umd.edu (Dan Burns)
Subject: Coherent - OS/2 bootstrap question
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 15:37:38 GMT


Is anyone currently running Coherent on a machine that also has OS/2 on the
same hard disk.  I have a question on how to set up the Boot Manager of
OS/2.  I think that I can use that instead of the MWC Bootstrap, or at least
on conjunction with the bootstrap, but would like to find out more from
someone who is already doing it.

Thanks
--Dan
(dan@ni.umd.edu)
From: peter@OCEAN.GEOL.SCAROLINA.EDU (Peter Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: re: BUSINESS ASPECTS
Date: 12 Apr 92 16:43:55 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

JOHN CHAMBLESS <CHAMBLES%USMCP6.BitNet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU> writes:
>On a related note, is there a COBOL compiler available fro Coherent?
>What about C++? The easier it is for developers to port their applications
>to Coherent, the sooner it will happen. I see a big potential market in
>the DOS users who have trieed MS Windows and found it lacking (to be polite).
>Coherent, on my 286/16 with 2 MEG of RAM, will easily run three or
>focesses, while my brother's 386 with 8 MEG won't even let him
>download a file concurrently with one othewr process (under Windows).
>If Coherent can develop a base of applications, it will be a force to
>be reckoned with.

I couldn't let this go by since there seems to be a bug in someone's
configuration or something.  I do not like Windows after using it for
some time.  However, even on my 386sx-16 with 2Meg I was able to
routinely download a file while doing other things (admittedly at only
2400 baud).  I just followed the generic installation procedure for
version 3.1 and had no trouble.  I do not know enough about Windows to
guess what the problem might be so there is really no point in asking
me more.

Peter Hoffman
peter@epoch.geol.scarolina.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: kranitz@mr.med.ge.com (Wes Kranitz 4-6857 MRCE)
Subject: Re: gnews
Organization: GE Medical Systems
Date: 17 Apr 92 12:30:49

Markus,

I have had the same problem. Gnewsfeed is suppose to filter news in such a
way that it doesn't echo it back to your feed. However, it can be fooled.
My feed site's uucp name is spool. However, in the headers from it, its called
spool.mu.edu . gnewsrun has a line in it something to the effect "gnewsfeed spool ..."
(I'm at work and don't remember the exact line). gnewsfeed and the routines
it calls are looking for " ...!spool!..." in the message header, but are finding 
"...!spool.mu.edu!..." instead and don't realize that their sending it back to the
feed site. If I use "gnewsfeed spool.mu.edu ...", uucp bawks at it as there
is no site by that name (the uucp site name is spool). I talked to Geoff. Mendelson
(the author of gnews) and he said he'd look into it, but I haven't heard as
to any resolution to the problem and haven't had time to look into it myself.
As it stands, I can't post from home and haven't written some script to do
the proper filtering yet. I just commented out that portion of gnewsrun.

Good luck,

Wes
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Porting vn to Coherent
From: kilroy@freddy.acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 09:34:53 GMT
Reply-To: kilroy@freddy.acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit)
Organization: The Blue Danube Waltzers

In article <9204121178@umunk.GUN.de> udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:

> this is a test posting done with the newsreader vn, just ported to
> Coherent 3.2. Yes i know, there are news groups for test, but at
> home, i only read this group, so no flames please.
> If i find this posting later, when reading at work, i will post
> this program to MWC.

It looks okay at this end. BTW, do you think you could get it to the ftp
site at ferkel.ucsb.edu as well?

						- k
-- 
Craig Harding         kilroy@freddy.acme.gen.nz         ACME BBS: +64 6 3551342
"Jub'f Xvob?"
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: d10590@tanus.cec.edu.au (Robert Chalmers)
Subject: console/color to bw/mono
Organization: Pro-Net Australia
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 07:00:09 GMT

Can someone help me  find a way to tell coherent that I have a mono monitor
attached now, and not a color monitor? Or do I have to do ac omplete
reinstall.
vi is very hard to use when you have no cursor display?
Bob.
_________________________________________________________________________
|Robert Chalmers. d10590@tanus.cec.edu.au. Mackay, TAFE. Queensland.Aus.|
|UUCP xanadu!nanguo!root   (AUS)         UUCP mwcbbs!nanguo!earth  (USA)|
|---------------------* ao zhong youyi wan sui *------------------------|
|UUCP nanguo!root  +61 079-****** AEST:24 Hours. rd:nuucp in:uupublic   |
|UUCP xanadu!root  +61 079-513705 AEST:1900-0600 rd:nuucp in:uupublic   |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
From: sjsobol@wariat.org (Steven J. Sobol)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Losing ctrl scancodes
Keywords: scancode help
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:16:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: wariat.1992Apr8.231610.13214
Organization: The Tiny Software Co., via APK Public Access Unix, Cleveland

In article <1992Apr4.015816.14674@actrix.gen.nz> Arnaud.Wylie@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>I've got the following problem with my Coherent 3.2.0 installation:
>
>Whenever I press the control key on my keyboard, all successive keypresses are
>interpreted by Coherent as if the control key was stil held down.
>I suppose that the scan code for "control key up" sent by my keyboard is not
>what Coherent expects. 
>
>Has anyone else encountered this problem ? B.T.W. , I'm using a clone "2001"
>101-key keyboard. I've tried all the dip-switch combinations on the keyboard,
>but to no avail.

I believe that would be the Focus FK-2001. Made by some clone manufacturer..
I've got the 3001 and had the same problem. Call Mark Williams and get 
3.2.0.15k -- it has an XT-compatible keyboard driver which works with all
clone keyboards (their standard keyboard driver doesn't). Unfortunately I
think you'll have to re-install (but ask them to make sure).

regards,
Steve

-- 
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From: scott@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Scott Silverstein MD)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Patch to HS driver for 16550AF Uarts
Date: 16 Apr 92 14:38:32 GMT

In article <9204160710.51@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>If you have Coherent 3.2.1 or newer, you don't need this patch as it is
>already included in the driver.

What is COH 3.2.1?  I have 3.2.0.15K, and MWC on the phone the other
day said it was the latest release.

-- Scott.
From: CHAMBLES@usmcp6.bitnet (JOHN CHAMBLESS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: SUBSCRIPTION
Date: 11 Apr 92 15:58:08 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

PLEASE ENTER MY SUBSCRIPTION to the Coherent mailing list.
thank you.

* Billy Chambless \ USM \Gulf Park
* <CHAMBLES@USMCP6.BITNET>