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From: bcstec!schultz@uunet.uu.net  (Robert A. Schultz)
Subject: Re: Help with RODIME Drive!!!!!!
Organization: Boeing Computer Services
Distribution: fj
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:11:01 GMT
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Roy Hardgrove (hardgrov@pilot.njin.net) wrote:

: I am in desparate need of some info about RODIME hard drives.
: More specifically, I have recently purchased the Rodime 3259T,
: which is a 210MB SCSI drive.  Whan I posted an inquiry about an

I have maybe 100 of the 210MB SCSI Rodime's in use.  I have had no
trouble with reliability but still hate them anyway.  They are
noisy, spin up SLOW and take forever to run their selftests...
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From: dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!pilot.njin.net!hardgrov@uunet.uu.net  (Roy Hardgrove)
Subject: Help with RODIME Drive!!!!!!
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Distribution: fj
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:25:21 GMT
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I am in desparate need of some info about RODIME hard drives.
More specifically, I have recently purchased the Rodime 3259T,
which is a 210MB SCSI drive.  Whan I posted an inquiry about an
Always Technology adapter, someone sent me a mail with horror
stories about RODIME drives:  he called them "Rodents".  I have
only had the drive for two-weeks, and the rep assured me that a
return for another drive would be possible, but this drive was
such a great buy.  I would like to keep it, however if there is a
high probability of failure I will trade it in for the Maxtor.
Someone please respond, and help me find the best resolution for
this "apparent" dilema.

Thanks for the help (in advance),

Roy F. Hardgrove
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From: sdd.hp.com!caen!afgun@hplabs.hpl.hp.com  (Andrew F Gunnesch)
Subject: Need info on old DSP90 card
Organization: What?  We don't need no stinkin' organization
Distribution: fj
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:15:26 GMT
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I was going through some old boards in my drawer here and came across
one that has me stumped:  It's made by systech, and is labelled as
MTI 900/1600  50-000004-9.  The numbers lead me to believe that it is
an old tape controller card.  It has a single 50-pin connector at the
top along with 10 LEDs, a 5-pin socket labelled J2, and a normal/diag
switch.  It also has 4 separate 8 switch DIPs on-board.  Anybody know
what this beast is?  The 800/1600 led me to believe low density tape
controller, but it's not a Pertec interface (needs 2 cables, not 1).
Help!
-- 
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afgun@caen.engin.umich.edu  |   |  __   __           __    defend to the death
==> Evil CAEN sysadmin <==  |===| |__| |  | |   |   |  |   your  right to  say
 What?  I just work here    |   | |    |__| |__ |__ |__|   it."     --Voltaire
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From: agate!spool.mu.edu!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!udecc.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil!desc.dla.mil!ezw0281@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Daniel J. Schulte)
Subject: HP 9807 ( INTEGERAL PC UNIX ) CAN YOU HELP?
Organization: Defense Electronics Supply Center
Distribution: fj
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:28:57 GMT
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Now  *SOMETHING* completly different.

I am pleased to announce that I am *NOW* the proud owner of the wonderful
HP product called the HP9807 or you may know it as the INTEGERAL PC
a Unix lunch box circa 1984.

As this system does have some gray hair and I was supplied with limited
documentation and software, I want to know everything *YOU* can tell me.
Also tell me what software or ROM chips or hardware you have or know
others to have.
Also if you have any advice please pass it along

Daniel J. Schulte
Internet dschulte@desc.dla.mil

		
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From: judith@mermaid.larc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Help with Colormaps
Date: 31 Dec 92 22:38:32 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: NASA/Langley Research Center

Date: 31 Dec 92 19:40:17 GMT
Message-Id: <1hvib1INNa67@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I'd like to thank all the people who took the time to try
and answer my colormap question. Unfortunately, no method
seems to yield satisfactory results -- there doesn't seem
to be any way to use/install/allocate one's own 256-element
colormap and have it come out right.  I actually _did_ 
produce more or less what I wanted on the Mac (using MacX),
but everything turned to sheepdip when I ran the app on
my Sun (Sparc 2). Both displays show up as 'pseudocolor' 
devices, with 256 colorcells.

Live and learn.

Judith Moore
judith@mermaid.larc.nasa.gov
From: banana@panix.com (Walter Polkosnik)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Too much X Security!
Date: 29 Dec 92 11:30:20 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

Date: 29 Dec 92 07:01:56 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Dec29.070156.8713@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

We have exactly one workstation which is not networked, but many people use it
by simply walking in and logging on. Only people at work on our project have
physical access to the machine, really security is not a problem. However, if
someone wants to use the machine, and someone else is logged on he first has to
kill the X server, logoff and have the other person log on. We all use the
system for a common job, and it would be much simpler if we could have it set
up so that another one of us can just walk in, su to his own account, and use
the X server that someone else started. However, X won't let you do that since
the new user was not the one who started the server, and the display is not
owned by him, even though it's an su from the original account.

Is there any way to turn off this 'security' feature via a command line switch
or a config file, so that anyone who has su'ed to their own account and does
not own the display can write to that display?

Thanks a lot. I know it's kind of a bizzarre request, but it would make work
much easier.


-- 
Walter Polkosnik                 
Physics Department         banana@panix.com        
Queens College, CUNY       {cmcl2,apple}!panix!banana
From: kuwa@nff.ncl.omron.co.jp (KUWARI Seiji)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: patch part 3 for X11R5/contrib/lib/Xwchar
Date: 28 Dec 92 16:47:02 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Message-Id: <9212281550.AA03718@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 12:55:41 +0900

I put a oficial patch part 3 for X11R5/contrib/lib/Xwchar from
OMRON Corporation on export.lcs.mit.edu.

Files are:
  ~ftp/pub/R5/contrib-fixes/Xwchar/README.p3
                                   patch3.Z

Please read README.p3.

Changed points:

  Maked adjustment for changing of wcharint.h in mit-patch-level-21.
  Fixed a bug of wchar.man

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From: CFRAZIER@hdsc.ssc.af.mil (C | C Code | C Code Run, please!)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: key bindings
Date: 30 Dec 92 17:29:36 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date:    Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:41:52 -0600 (CST)
Message-Id: <921230104152.2a80681e@hdsc.ssc.af.mil>
X-Vmsmail-To: SMTP%"xpert@athena.mit.edu",SMTP%"leon@dimatrix.dk"

I think we may have been talking about 2 different
things.  I need to know ways to switch between
the different windows in Motif.  And other things
that are program independent.
From: jeffc@magician.larc.nasa.gov (Jeff Cleveland)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: JAM from JYACC - mouse buttons ?
Date: 25 Dec 92 00:43:39 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA

Date: 24 Dec 92 16:13:25 GMT
Message-Id: <1hcnj5INNcep@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.x

In article <izeek.725202592@techunix.technion.ac.il>, izeek@techunix.technion.ac.il (Ilan Aisic) writes:
> I'm posting this on behalf of a friend who is using JAM on top of OpenWindows
> on a Sun SPARC to create an application.
> My friend complains that she can only program JAM to accept left button (the 
> SELECT button) from the mouse.  If she presses the right mouse button (MENU), 
> her application displays the default OW menu that she doesn't want.
> In fact, she would like to assign the JAM "Help" function to the middle or 
> right mouse button instead of a keyboard combination as suggested.
> The solution if any, should not alter the OpenWindows behavior (xmodmap).
> 
> If there are JAM experts out there, I also have another question:
> How do I get from a JAM application some Xlib variables like the
> Display pointer, the Window id, etc.  If someone wants to add some
> X - extentions to a JAM application how he/she go about it?
> 

I have done a lot of X11/Motif customizing of JAM.  

In order to add widgets, you need the additional JAM/pi product. It contains
a routine called

  sm_drawingarea()

that returns the Widget of the current screen. There should be a similar call
in the Open Windows version. Once you have that widget, you can use the myriad 
of Xt conversion routines to get the values you need.

for example:
  widget=sm_drawingarea();
  display=XtDisplay( widget );  /* get the display used for this widget. */
  screen=XtScreen( widget );    /* get the screen used for this widget.  */

In order to change the mouse button, I think you need to change the definition
for the button in the X resource file for jam (XJam). It is usually located
in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults. There you can assign operations to the mouse
buttons. (Again, you need the JAM/pi product.)

If you don't have JAM\pi, then you might be able to alter the session maanger
to watch for button down events, but this would be a lot of work.



Jeff Cleveland
Unisys Corporation 
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton Virginia
jeffc@magician.larc.nasa.gov
From: ekpc@access.digex.com (East Kentucky Power Cooperative)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: TCP/IP and X under MS Windows 3.1?
Date: 23 Dec 92 01:22:07 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA

Date: 22 Dec 1992 20:43:55 GMT
Message-Id: <1h7umbINN9qp@mirror.digex.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.ms,comp.protocols.tcp-ip


I am using Hummingbird's eXceed/W with Novell's Lan Workplace for DOS.
This works rather well, especially for this site as it is a mixture of
ARCNet and ether.  Except for a for a few cosmetic differences, I have
been rather pleased with the setup.  eXceed/W is up to version 3.2.
(What out for disk 4 in the 3.5" floppy set- all of mine were bad, but 
they were happy to send out a new one)

Fernie
From: anthony@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (Anthony Thyssen)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: X client that just sits and waits?
Date: 22 Dec 92 04:09:29 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Griffith University.

Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:58:05 GMT
Message-Id: <Bzn1Gu.47t@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley) writes:
| wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO)) writes:
| mw> I am looking for a very simple (X) program: one that just waits
| mw> forever (until it gets killed). [to put at the end of .xinitrc.
|
| Try xlogout. It just opens a window which is a button to push, when it
| is pushed xlogout exits. You can then have a logout button somewhere
| on your screen.

I tried xlogout for a while but wanted a confirmation of the logout.
So I rolled my own using xmessage.

--------------8<-----------CUT HERE--------------8<---------------
#!/bin/sh -
#
#  This uses the xmessage program to create a Xlogout type button
#
exit=
while [ ! "$exit" ]; do
  xmessage -name xlogout -title xlogout "$@" \
        -buttons "" -xrm '*message.borderWidth: 0' \
        -xrm '*Translations: #override <BtnDown>: exit(0)' \
        -xrm '*Font: -*-new cent*-bold-r-normal--24-*' \
        'Logout'
  [ $? -ne 0 ] && exit=true
  if [ "$exit" != 'Logout' ]; then
    xmessage -name xlogout -title xlogout "$@" \
        -buttons 'Cancel:0,Logout:1' -xrm '*message.borderWidth: 0' \
        -xrm '*Font: -*-new cent*-bold-r-normal--18-*' \
        'Are You Sure?'
    [ $? -ne 0 ] && exit=true
  fi
done

--------------8<-----------CUT HERE--------------8<---------------


  Anthony Thyssen - (SysProg @ Griffith University)     anthony@cit.gu.edu.au
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From: wangbs@casd1.iie.ncku
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Method to find all files' name of a directory in Xview
Date: 24 Dec 92 20:28:11 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: CASD Lab.

Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:11:23 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Dec24.051628.29963@dec8.ncku.edu.tw>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


  Hi, all:
      How can I program to find files' name of a directory in Xview? I want
  to it like the "open" choice of "File" pop-up menu in Turbo C. In Turbo
  C When you select the open choice, it can prompt many files that you can 
  choose. Since I am not familar with the Xview, it is better have a example
  code.
          Thanks for any response!!!
                                        wangbs@casd1.iie.ncku.edu.tw
                                   or   wangbs@locust.iie.ncku.edu.tw
From: wolfson@cme.nist.gov (Mike Wolfson)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: FAQ list please.
Date: 22 Dec 92 01:46:46 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

Date: 21 Dec 92 21:37:37 GMT
Message-Id: <20457@web.cme.nist.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


Could somebody please point me to this lists's FAQ list, or an 
appropriate location to get an answer to my question?

I am attempting to get OpenWin's Calendar Manager (cm) to display
properly on an xterminal.  
Our site has a few xterminals strewn here and there.  The problem 
is that our xterminals can only display 8 possible fonts, and none
of them fit the bill for cm.
I am trying to either a: substitute the fonts that cm uses with
ones available for the xterminal, or b: figure out how to make 
the xterminal recognize the standard fonts for OpenWin.

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated,
Thank you very large.
  -- Mike Wolfson
From: koverber@cs.ulowell.edu (Kurt Overberg)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Remote X window games out there?
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:44:49 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science

Date: 21 Dec 92 15:39:36 GMT
Message-Id: <BzM8u1.Gq@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


There are a few.  One popular game is netrek.  It is a network 
version of xtrek (a startrek based battle game, conquer the 
universe and win a priiiize!)  Look on export.lcs.mit.edu
for the source.  I know there is a fairly active server here
at Lowell, the machine name is netrek.ulowell.edu.  
You would use:

	$ netrek -h netrek.ulowell.edu

IMHO it is a VERY cool game.


					peace out.


					   kurt
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koverber@cs.ulowell.edu  |  Llama taboot, taboot!"      -Phish
From: kevin@pyrtech.mis.pyramid.com (Kevin Smith)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Need Big Fonts
Date: 30 Dec 92 18:26:24 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation

Date: 30 Dec 92 03:58:31 GMT
Message-Id: <184731@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif


Hi,
	Im trying to find some big fonts for our system 62 points
or better, can anyone direct me to an ftp site that has the .bdf files
for these fonts.
Thanks, kevin@pyramid.com
From: westhawk!thp@scslwide.sony.co.jp (Timothy H Panton)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Postscript in a window
Date: 22 Dec 92 11:48:43 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 10:19:34 GMT
Message-Id: <9212221019.AA08569@westhawk.uucp>
X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII
Content-Length: 949


reynolds@yin.ucsd.edu (Andy Reynolds) writes:

> I am looking for a widget that will take a postscript file
...
> Sparc with X11R5 and Motif 1.2
I wrote one of those, but it uses the NeWS side of the OW3 server,
I also did a port a while ago to make it work with any Display postscript
extended server.

The advantages over Ghostview are that you dont have to manage another
process per widget and that the fonts are much better.

If any one wants it just let me know.
Tim.
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From: mjo@iao.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Need 'xmkmf' utility
Date: 23 Dec 92 18:09:33 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Not an official spokesperson for Ford Motor Company

Date: 23 Dec 1992 15:08:42 GMT
Message-Id: <1h9vdqINNlc2@ope001.iao.ford.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <1992Dec22.223815.4531@news.mentorg.com>
arora@arora.mentorg.com (Arora Amitabh @ PCB x3080) writes:

:Does anyone know how to get the 'xmkmf' utility ?  Any ftp sites please ?
:I need to use it on the HP/Apollo 400 series machines.

A good place to start would be the Interworks library.  The anonymous
FTP site is iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu.  You may want to specify which OS
you're running on your 9000/400.

						...Mike

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From: lah@unh.edu (Lance A. Hartford)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: X protocol
Date: 23 Dec 92 06:25:40 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: UNH Interoperability Lab

Date: 22 Dec 92 11:19:15
Message-Id: <LAH.92Dec22111915@genesis.unh.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I am looking into writing a protocol decoder for the X protocol. I
don't know much about X and I have no idea where to look for
information like this. Where should I look for protocol
specifications? Thanks...

                                                            Lance

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From: CZIWKGA@VMSFE.ULCC.AC.UK ("Kevin Ashley, Systems Development, ULCC")
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Summary: Information on Image extension(s) to X?
Date: 3 Jan 93 17:20:13 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Message-Id: <9301031635.AA19702@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Via: uk.ac.ulcc.vmsfe; Sun, 3 Jan 1993 16:34:34 +0000
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 16:30 GMT

On 20 Dec, I wrote to this list (after having mailed ximage) asking for info
on the Image Extension to X, and promised to summarise. I received two
helpful responses, from Alan Mazer at jpl and Howard Stroyan at HP, the
latter supplying me with a July '92 copy of the review spec. On the
31st, my questions were effectively answered when Bob Scheifler mailed the list
announcing the public review draft of XIE.

Thanks to Alan and Howard for taking the time to send me their helpful
responses, and thanks to the Consortium for getting the document to
public review stage.

Kevin Ashley (K.Ashley@ulcc.ac.uk)
From: hstroyan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Howard Stroyan)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Help with Colormaps
Date: 22 Dec 92 13:41:59 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA

Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:49:15 GMT
Message-Id: <7320055@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In comp.windows.x, Judith Moore <judith@mermaid.larc.nasa.gov> writes:

> I'm new to X-windows and am writing an application for which I
> need to use a series of (different) 256-color color tables on 
> a single open window -- that is, with the same image displayed, I
> want to change the entire colormap an arbitrary number of times.
> I'm having a lot of trouble making X understand this. Can anyone
> supply a cookbook of the sequence of events and functions to 
> thoroughly quash the previous colormap and allow a new one to 
> color the picture?

You have several ways you can go on this. 

You can use a series of seperate software colormaps and
can the "colormap" which associated with the window, or you can
use a single X Colormap resource and redefine the content of that
one colormap's cells.

If the colormaps are apriori finite set the first method is 
probably best because it will offer the quickest transitions.  

If the colormaps are dynamic in nature or large in number the 
second method might be better.

To implement the 1st method it would look something like:

    Colormap cmap[number_of_cmaps];
    XColor   colors[][];

    for (number_of_cmap)
    {
	cmap[i] = XCreateColormap(display, w, visual, AllocAll);
	XStoreColors(display, cmap[i], color[i], ncolors);
    }

    /* when you need to switch cmaps use */
    XSetWindowColormap(display, w, cmap[selector]);

    /* when you're all done, don't forget */
    XFreeColormap(display, cmap[i]);

If you go with option 2, then you will only need to Create one cmap.
Use the  XStoreColors call to replace the color mapping for the cells
in the Colormap with a new set of mappings.

--
Howard Stroyan                                         
Hewlett-Packard                                        hstroyan@fc.hp.com
User Interface Technology Division