HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: smith@icat.larc.nasa.gov (Steven L. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SGI Space Simulator Version 1.0 (long)
Date: 23 Nov 92 14:45:27 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: icat.larc.nasa.gov

eyring@cc.utah.edu writes:

>SGI Space Simulator Version 1.0

>I just had the chance to play with one of the coolest
>simulations/machines I have ever seen.

>We have a Crimson SGI (100K$ class) on site and there is
>GL demo program called space or the
>SGI Space Simulator Version 1.0.

Any possibility of someone making this demo available on an
anonymous ftp site?

 
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From: LEVINE%FIDLER.decnet@sunman.chinalake.navy.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: where is thermal switch on twin tower
Date: 16 Nov 92 14:48:23 GMT


	A while back in this list, it was brought up that there was a
thermal cut off switch in the twin tower (in my case a 4D/240) and how to
reset it. Naturally, now that I need it, I can't find the information.
Can anyone out there resend me that info?
	Thanks in advance

Michael N. LeVine  Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, Ca 93555, USA
Internet: levine%fidler.decnet@nwc.navy.mil
(619) 939-2614  avn  437-2614 

 "Waiter, there's a bug in my soup!"        
 "No, Sir, it's not a bug, it's a feature!"
From: roxx@diku.dk (Finn Korsholm Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Prices of SGI Indigo and Crimson
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:22:02 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

Hi,

I would like to hear about SGI Indigo and Crimson series list prices
in the States (I live in Europe). Both generally and especially on
Indigo XS 24 with 24 bit planes, 1280x1024 16" monitor, 80Mb RAM and
not necessarily with disk.

Thanks in advance,

Finn
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: How do I use a remote backup unit?
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:31:50 GMT

In <1992Nov16.113459.30301@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> ubjta56@ucl.ac.uk (Dr P Day) writes:
| 	(i) why does the remote Indigo insist that it cannot
| 	open the tape drive, which a few minutes earlier was
| 	accessed by the host Indigo?

It isn't the remote indigo (with the tape drive) that is saying it can't
open it, it is the local one!

| 	(ii) What do I have to do to remotely backup Indigo A on a tape
| 	drive that is attached to Indigo B? (i.e. do I have to mount stuff
| 	and do it all by hand (manually) using backup?)

You just need permission.  The simples test is:
	mt -t remotehost:/dev/tape stat
	mt -t guest@remotehost:/dev/tape stat

If the first fails and the second works, you don't have rsh permission
on the remote.  If they both fail, the error messages may tell you
why (see man rsh for some help, that's the bsd rsh, not the sysV
restricted shell).

If you still can't figure it out, enable rsh logging on the remote
(see man rshd, change inetd.conf on the remote, and killall -HUP inetd).
Then try again, and look at /usr/adm/SYSLOG.conf on the remote.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:58:05 EST
From: <SML108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Aspect ratio of a glxMDrawWidget

What would be the best way to control the aspect ratio of a glxMDrawWidget
since it is illegal to use keepaspect with it?  My situation is that I
am using one of these widgets as the work area of a main window widget
and I can place aspect ratio control on the top level shell, but since
there will be a command history, command, menu, and control panel widget
buttons in this window too, I need to be able to control this widget's
aspect ratio alone...

Scott
From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Direct login failure
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:21:01 GMT
Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology

I have a user who cannot log in directly to one of our Iris 4Ds
running 4.0.1.  He tries, the screen blanks for a moment, and then
he's back at the login menu.  (Even with no password, he fails.)
All other logins, on that machine or by that user, succeed.  He
has a pretty boring .login and .cshrc.  Any clues?
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: jonv@bernard.pitzer.claremont.edu (Jon Vestal)
Subject: Help with GNU C/C++
Organization: Pitzer College
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:02:01 GMT

Hi,

I have recently installed GNU C and can not get libg++ to compile.  I have 
GNU C 2.3.1 and libg++ 2.2.  I configure for irix4d.  I am runing Indigos 
with R3000 and Irix4.05.  Here is the error I get when trying to compile 
libg++:

cc: Error: no source file
nm: Error: cannot open dummy.o
nm: Error: cannot open dummy.o
nm failed to find FUN in dummy.o!
./utils/gen-params: -1: bad number
*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Jon Vestal
Systems Administrator
Pitzer College

jonv@pitzer.claremont.edu
From: long@vax.ox.ac.uk (Neil J. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: sendmailcf help please
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:50:06 GMT
Organization: Materials Department, University of Oxford

Hi I need to make a change to our sendmail.cf files to satisfy sites using '
coloured book' NRS databases rather than DNS. The suggested changes from our 
central admin people is as follows but I cannot see how to do  it within the 
sendmail.cf created on the Indigos. Could someone with more experience of 
this please help.

Suggested changes
=================
(stuff deleted)

To solve this problem you must change the return address that your machine(s) 
puts on outgoing mail; this means changing one line in your sendmail.cf file on 
each machine, as follows. I've included extra lines for context and you may 
find that your existing line doesn't exactly match the example I have given;

Old
---
###################################################################
###
###		Ethernet Mailer specification
###
###################################################################

Mether,	P=[IPC], F=nsmFDMuXC, S=21, R=21, A=IPC $h

S21
R$+@$+			$@$1@$2			address ok
R$+			$@$1@$J		add ether domain name

New
---
###################################################################
###
###		Ethernet Mailer specification
###
###################################################################

Mether,	P=[IPC], F=nsmFDMuXC, S=21, R=21, A=IPC $h

S21
R$+@$+			$@$1@$2			address ok
R$+			$@$1@indigo.materials@oxford.ac.uk		add ether domain name

Your return address will then be, for example, 

"user%indigo.materials@oxford.ac.uk"

and you you will be able to send and receive JANET mail on each machine. 

Thanks
Neil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
Subject: Re: Need Example of Multi-media Software
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:04:19 GMT

In article <1e9qknINN4k6@werple.apana.org.au> hunter@werple.apana.org.au (James Gardiner) writes:
>
>>So, does anyone have a Showcase interactive tutorial I could
>>"borrow" just for the demostration? I will be glad to sign
>>anything/everything yiou require :-)
>
>>Thanks.
>With the 4.0.5F version of IRIX, The version that
>comes with R4000 indigo and reality engine, There is a new
>login called tour (from memory)  Its quite a good demo of the
>new sound and movie programs available with 4.0.5F
>It would be a good idea to show that.
>Its showcase based and very Interactive.
>

Hmmmm...... I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but here goes...

I looked at SpaceTour when we got IRIX 4.0.5F and I looked again when
it was suggested as a good example of interactive multi-media. OK,
it is interactive and it is multi-media, but in my professional opinion
(I have taught college-level biology to about 9,500 students to date)
SpaceTour is NOT a _good_ example of an interactive tutorial. 

Like the HotMix demo, SpaceTour is too "cutesie". Basically the fancy
artwork detracts, rather than adds to the information content of the 
tutorial. Often the background pictures even make the small text hard to read.
There are a lot of pedagogical problems but I won't waste anymore bandwidth
here (besides I get paid big bucks for similar reviews for text book
publishers, so why give it away free?).

It seems to me that it would be in SGI's corporate interest to develop 
either in-house or out-house ;-) a ShowCase-based interactive tutorial
that really could be used in a college-level course. Such a tutorial
could be used by sales droids to illustrate the multi-media capabilities 
of the Indigo and as-yet-unnounced products. It could also be used as
a "style-guide" for faculty interested in developing their own ShowCase
based offerings. 

The Indigo is a great machine -- even the latest issue of Byte Magazine
claims that the R4K Indigo "offers a price/performance level beyond
that of even a Quadra with graphics coprocessors". However, if I'm
going to try and convince Apple-loving faculty members that SGI boxes
really are the best platform for interactive multi-media, I need more
than Buttonfly demos and SpaceTour. 

Finally, there is some urgency here. I suspect that SGI's window of
opportunity in this field will begin to close in 2-3 years, if not 
sooner, as Apple brings on-line products with the PowerPC chip-set
and Microsoft/Intel move beyond 486's and the EISA bus. While I
trust SGI will maintain its technological edge, Apple and Microsoft
need only offer _adequate_ performance to maintain their momemtum
and ever-growing software base.
From: gavin@iris.mincom.oz.au (Gavin Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: HP Dat Drive Question
Date: 18 Nov 92 05:09:52 GMT
Organization: Mincom, Brisbane, Australia
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


We have a Hewlett Packard HP 35480A SCSI Dat Drive and am
attempting to run it off an SGI. We have tested it on IRIS Indigos
running 4.0.1 and 4.0.5F and a 4D35 running 4.0.4.

With the installation documentation are instructions to reconfigure 
the kernel, more or less copying the paragraph,
in /usr/sysgen/master.d/tpsc, beginning with -

{DATTAPE, TPDAT,2,8,"HP","HP35480A",0,0,{0,0,0,0},

And replace the first line in the new paragraph with the line
below:

{DATTAPE, TPDAT,2,8,"HP","HP35480A",0,0,{0,0,0,0},

This works fine, the system knows now knows about the drive. 

The recommended switch settings from the supplier are:

-------------------------------------------------
| DIP Switches  | 1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8 |
| ----------------------------------------------|
| SGI Machine   | 1   1   1   0   1   1   0   0 |
| ----------------------------------------------|
| Sun, close to |                               |
| SCSI mode 1   | 1   1   1   1   1   0   0   0 |
-------------------------------------------------

I noticed people have them working, could someone please advise 
me of their DIP switch settings ???

Thanks in advance.
From: rdargahi@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Ross Dargahi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: CD rom NFS mounting
Date: 19 Nov 1992 17:26:57 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine
Distribution: world
Reply-To: rdargahi@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Ross Dargahi)
NNTP-Posting-Host: wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu
Originator: rdargahi@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu



I am having trouble exporting my cdrom filesystem via nfs. 

the entry in the exports file is:

/cdrom -ro,access=iaimssuns

when I issue a exportfs -a command I get the following response:

exportfs: /cdrom: Too many levels of remote in path

Note that using df the cdrom system is listed as follows:

Filesystem                 Type  blocks     use   avail %use  Mounted on

/dev/scsi/sc0d4l0          iso9  475136  475136       0 100%  /cdrom

I suppose the real question is whether it is possible to export the CD rom
file system.

Thanks in advance for your help

Ross Dargahi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: mguttman@tempest.wbme.jhu.edu (Mike Guttman)
Subject: Can inventor do cut planes?
Organization: Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:04:51 GMT


Greetings,

In inventor, can you display a volume and send a cut plane(s) through it?
Can you interactively set/change the location of the cut plane?
Can you display the contents of the cut plane in a separate window?
Can you do all of the above with an animated volume (dynamic data)?

We like the ease of interaction with Inventor's viewers and need the
above capabilities.

Thanks and please respond by e-mail.

Mike Guttman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: steve@dewey.tamu.edu (Steve Rikli)
Subject: FAQ:  Your input still needed
Keywords: faq
Organization: College of Architecture, Texas A&M University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:41:16 GMT

The work on the comp.sys.sgi FAQ is progressing, but we still need your
input.

We're still gathering info, articles, questions (& answers) for inclusion
in the c.s.sgi FAQ, and we want _your_ submissions.  Thanks to everyone
who has kindly contributed things all ready!

To submit anything to the FAQ, email it to:

                        sgi-faq@archone.tamu.edu

I'm sorry that I haven't supplied an auto-reply yet, and we can't guarantee
that everything we receive will be included in the FAQ, but I promise a real
person will read and review your submission.

cheers,
sr.
--
|| Steve Rikli 	           |||  Visualization Lab               ||
|| steve@archone.tamu.edu  |||  Texas A&M University            ||
|| 409-845-3465            |||  College Station, TX  77843-3137 ||
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: gaarder@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Gaarder)
Subject: How to "downgrade" an R4000 Indigo XS24Z?
Organization: AC Technology
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:34:42 GMT

We have an R4000 Indigo XS24Z, which is  a very nice machine, but we
need to test our software on other configurations.  What I would like to
do is remove various pieces of the hardware to reconfigure the beast into
XS24, XS, and Entry.  Two questions:

1.  Do I need to change jumpers or do anything to the hardware other than
remove the boards?

2.  Which parts of the software have to be reinstalled when the config is
changed?  Since this is a temporary change, I would like to have different
versions of the necessary files on-line and rename them as needed.

Thanks,

Steven Gaarder                              Network and Systems Administrator
gaarder@actech.com                          A C Technology, Ithaca, N.Y., USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: stiles@rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Randy Stiles)
Subject: Re:  Inventor to Performer
Reply-To: stiles@rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., Inc.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 20:14:10 GMT

 >   We just got inventor and performer a few weeks ago, and I was
>wondering if anyone has a converter from Inventor format
>to Performer similar to the converter flight format.

I heartily second this motion.  We were informed that
there are no plans at SGI to release a new version
of Inventor that uses Performer underneath, so the
*very least* that SGI could do is provide a translator that
does Inventor <-> Performer translation (both ways)
for their data files.

They are, after all, both Silicon Graphics products.

Any work going on in this area at Silicon Graphics?

-Randy

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ori@marvin.technion.ac.il (Ori Degani)
Subject: Using CDROM from a remote system.
Organization: Heart of Gold Institute
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:48:01 GMT
Keywords: CDROM

Hi, 
  I've got a CDROM connected to a Personal Iris 4D/35
  I have an Indigo running without a CDROM.
  I'd like to use cdplayer to play a CD on the indigo (Using the CDROM on the 4D)
  Is there a way to do that?  
  Also, is there a way to take a CD, and make it into an .aiff file?

Thanks, Ori
-- 
   |  ----      Ori Degani
   |  |___      ori@eddie.technion.ac.il   (Ship Computer on the HOG)
   |  |         ori@marvin.technion.ac.il  (Who else) 
   |  ----      s2973229@techst02.technion.ac.il (Ech..)   
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story)
Subject: Re: How to convert from PostScript to Iris RGB?
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 19:19:55 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.134328@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov> sullivan@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dan sullivan) writes:
>I need to convert PS files to Iris RGB format to print on a Tektronix
>4693D printer. Is there a command to do this? I can't find 'fromps'
>in the /usr/sbin or the sgi anon ftp site. Imgworks doesn't seem to
>be able to do this either. I could  display the file in xpsview,
>then make a screen snapshot, but this is crude. Is there a simpler way?

David Haight of Tektronix mentioned both CAI and upgrading your 93D to
a 93PXi.  

One thing he did not mention is SGI's Impressario product, which
includes a filter to convert from PostScript to a number of bitmap
formats.  Impressario 1.0 does not directly support the 93D, but with
TekPhaser it does support the 94SX and 94DX.  

The 'fromps' filter you ask about is not trivial, as David mentioned:
if it were Adobe would be out of business quickly.  Impressario,
however, provides a simple command-line filter for converting from
Color PostScript to several bitmap formats.  

For more information, contact SGI Express at 800-800-4SGI.

Cheers,

David Story                        	        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
story@bent.wpd.sgi.com				Mountain View, California
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: 3.10 Compilers (was: Re: Makefile and head headers)
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:23:46 GMT

In <1992Nov16.090543.22306@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> kleinren@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Rainer Kleinrensing) writes:

| olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
| >If you have the 3.10 compilers, there is also -MDupdate, which
| >does libraries as well as header files.
| 
| ...
| 
| >The advantage of the 3.10 compilers (4.1 IDO) is that the headers
| >dependencies automatically get updated every time the files
| >get recompiled, so they are always as correct as possible.
| 
| Where do I get the 3.10 compilers ? Our 405 maint CD lists
| maint_c as Version 2.0.4 and maint_dev as 4.0.5. Do I have to ask my 
| sales rep for another update ?
| ('file /usr/lib/accom' says 'version 2.10')

You'll have to call the support folks.  I'm not sure who gets it
as part of their support contract, and who doesn't.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: automount mounts on ls
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:01:43 GMT

In article <orman.722110315@pv0238.vincent.iastate.edu>, orman@iastate.edu (David L Orman) writes:
> 
> Automount mounts everything in a directory when you do an ls in the
> mount points directory, that is really annoying is there some way around
> it?
> 
> ex:
>  I mount indy:/usr/indy  on /usr/indy on animate  and when I do an ls in
> /usr it mounts it, which means I have to wait for them all to mount.  We
> mount about 14 machines so this takes a while.
> 
> Any suggestions?


Does a bland `/bin/ls -C` cause things to be mounted?  I bet not.

Change you current alias of "alias ls ls -CF" to "ls ls -CHF".


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
From: davis@kelvin.ocean.fsu.edu (Alan Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: CDROM problem
Date: 15 Nov 92 21:04:13 GMT

I am trying to upgrade from 4.0.1 to 4.0.5 but the install software option
on the startup menu does not recognize the CDROM.  It thinks I only have a
tape drive and hinv from the prom monitor says its just a scsi device.
However, when I boot the system, hinv then recoginzes it as a CDROM and
I am able to mount a CDROM in the device!!  Anyone have any suggestions?

kelvin 1% hinv
2 33 MHZ IP7 Processors
FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.0
CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.0
On-board serial ports: 2 per CPU board
Data cache size: 64 Kbytes
Instruction cache size: 64 Kbytes
Secondary data cache size: 256 Kbytes
Main memory size: 32 Mbytes
I/O board, slot F: IO3
Integral Ethernet: et0
VGX Graphics option installed
Xylogics 7800 16-drive IPI disk controller 0: Firmware version 2.2.4
IPI Disk drive: unit 0 on Xylogics controller 0
CDROM: unit 7 on SCSI controller 1
Disk drive: unit 4 on SCSI controller 1
Disk drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 1
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version WD33C93A
Tape drive: unit 7 on SCSI controller 0: QIC 150
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93A


I was able to successfully install 4.0.1 using the CDROM several months ago,
and have not had any apparent trouble reading CDs since.  TIA
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: bstango@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Robert T. Stango)
Subject: Electrical phases on SGI fileserver
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:48:28 GMT


I am looking for some info on how electrical phases effect the Irises.
Specifically a Predator. The situation: We have a Predator set up as a
fileserver. It's main 220VAC power source was originally set up with its
phases reversed. This was down to the whole building. A rather LARGE ups
is being installed and they are going to put the phases the correct way
(as they should have been to start). Is this going to cause ANY problems
with the way the machine reacts? I know internally it won't due to the
220 to 110 converter, but will it hurt the main power supply at all?
I am pretty sure everything will be fine but it doesn't hurt to be sure.
Please send Email with any answers you may have. Or questions if this is
not clear enough. Thanks for any responses.
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