HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: wen@monolith.bellcore.com (Wen Lee)
Subject: Help! 3.5" floppy iv problems
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 14:47:59 GMT

Hi,

Last night I yanked the old 5.25" floppy drive out and installed the
new 3.5" floppy disk drive. (bought from CA Digital $29+$6(S&H)).
This 3.5" driver fits in to the original 5.25" space perfectly since
it came with the 5.25" chassis.  The only extra thing is that Radio
Shack $2.49 3" long Adapter Cable 278-765 (you might not even need it,
since the driver came with a 5.25" male power connector on its chassis,
but the original cable on unixpc seems a little too short). After I put
everything back to one piece, it boots up with no problem. 

Later, I tried to format a 2DD diskette using iv command BUT got the following
error messages.  Can someone tell me what the problem might be? How can I tell
the 3.5" disk drive is really a 720K and made by Sony since nowhere I can find
the word is printed on the drive. By the way, I have unix 3.5 on by box.

HERE IS THE OUTPUT OF COMMAND "iv":
===================================

  $ iv -i /dev/rfp020 /tmp/MD10Lnl
  iv: I/O error
  
  $ cat /tmp/MD10Lnl
  #sccs   "@(#)iv/lib:MD10Lnl     1.1"
  #       iv description file for 135 TPI Micro Floppy file system disk.
  type            FD
  name            Floppy
  cylinders       80
  heads           2
  sectors         10
  steprate        0
  singledensity
  $
  $
  $
  0
  1
  $
  $
  
  $ iv -i /dev/rfp020 /tmp/MDLnl
  iv: disk with odd sectors/tracks must have bad block table specification
  
  $ cat /tmp/MDLnl
  #sccs   "@(#)iv/lib:MDLnl       1.1"
  #       iv description file for 135 TPI Micro Floppy file system disk.
  type            FD
  name            Floppy
  cylinders       80
  heads           2
  sectors         9
  steprate        0
  singledensity
  $
  $
  $
  0
  1
  $
  $
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: jbunch@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Bunch)
Subject: Re: Why am I called LOGIN?
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 00:39:12 GMT

lucio@phyrql.Alt.ZA (Lucio de Re) writes:

>I was hoping I wouldn't have to ask this question, but frustration
>is mounting...

>I'm running Sys V Ver 3.0 on my PC 7300 (I have no choice) and I've
>installed 4 gettys in inittab to provide me with four selectable
>login windows.  I'd hate to test the theory, but I've discovered
>that I'm without fail LOGIN, not lucio, to logname(1) whichever
>window I happen to select (I'm lying of course, I'm almost certain
>that there is one window which acknowledges the superiority of lucio
>over LOGIN, but the system hasn't yet disclosed the criteria used in
>its choice :-). This kind of throws many programs that rely on
>logname(1) to establish my identity.  'Sfar as I know, I'm lucio if
>I log in on a serial port, so I guess login(1) is broken, probably
>in writing /etc/wtmp.

>The BIG question: can I fix it without upgrading to 3.51, and if
>so, how?

Lucio,

I am running ATT Sysv V 3.51m on my machine and I have the same problem.
The only thim I really notice it is when I use tetrix.  It saves my score
as LOGIN instead of jbunch.  If there is a way of fixing this please let
me know also.

John


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols)
Subject: Re: Getting xfer stats from HDB
Organization: D and D Data, Vienna VA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:13:12 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.025514.2843@toybox.raleigh.nc.us> hruska@toybox.raleigh.nc.us (Bob Hruska) writes:
>I have been running HDB with a Supra FAXModem (14400bps) for
>a couple months now, and now I'm curious what kind of transfer rates
>I'm getting.
>
>I have seen a few postings here that quoted output from "uutraf" but
>I don't know what this is.  Is there some sort of accounting that
>HDB does that I can use?  What/where is uutraf?

	Uutraf is a public-domain program out there somewhere, perhaps on
the BSD source - I haven't looked for it yet.  However, you can check on the
transfer speeds by looking in the file "/usr/spool/uucp/.Admin/xferstats".
Beware that the transfer rates shown for short files are close to
meaningless, since you have the overhead of establishing the transfer for
that file, and if your modem is capable of uucp spoofing (like the
Telebits), and has a large buffer, everything goes into the buffer very
quickly, and the granularity of the time measurement under SysV is rather
coarse, so you get strange numbers.  A flie larger than 10k is probably a
reasonable measure of transfer speed.  (You don't mention whether the 14.4k
modem is interfaced at 9600 or 19200 baud.)  If the system is doing
something else which generates a lot of interrupts, such as ethernet
transfers, you can wind up with slower effective transfer rates with a baud
rate of 19.2k than at 9.6k, since you have more overruns and failed blocks
which need to be retried.  On a lightly loaded 3B1, 19.2k is probably
reasonable with standard 'g' protocol with 3 windows.  Any attempt to make
it more efficient with longer packets or more windows seems to be
counterproductive, based on the general experience on this newsgroup, though
you will find a few for whom there are no apparent troubles.

	Good Luck
		DoN.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano)
Subject: Re: Bitmap display program?
Organization: Multidisciplinary Designs Unlimited
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:13:05 GMT

In article <1993Jan18.214718.4918@chance.gts.org> john@chance.gts.org (John R. MacMillan) writes:
>
>Does anyone know of a program for displaying some sort of bitmap (PBM
>preferrably, but ``raw'' UNIXpc bitmaps would do) with the stock
>window system (not MGR)?

There is a pbmto3b1 program (probably at OSU) that takes a pbm file and
displays it in its own window, that you can scroll in any direction if
the image is bigger than the screen.  An older version of the pbm utilities
used to compile just fine.  A newer one didn't right away, so I kept the
old one.  You can probably find binaries of all this at osu.

To view a gif file on the unix pc you just need to type:

giftoppm <gif file> | ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm | pbmto3b1

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Cramolin (was: Re: Non-keyboard problem)
From: flinton@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:27:11 EST
Organization: Wesleyan University

In article <1993Jan20.043929.1165@d-and-d.com>, dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. 
Nichols) writes:
>
> Disclaimer:	I have no connection with the manufacturers of Cramolin,
> 		other than as a *very* satisfied user.
>
I too have found Cramolin very effective, particularly in cleaning the
wipe area of a not-entirely-sealed potentiometer (preamp audio controls,
turntable variable-speed-controls, etc.).

-- Fred (yet another satisfied user)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: uuencode/uudecode
From: flinton@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 28 Jan 93 14:53:59 EST
Distribution: usa
Organization: Wesleyan University

In article <1993Jan27.051926.17675@ra.msstate.edu>, pcg2@ra.msstate.edu (Patrick C Greer) writes:
> 
> I ftp'd a copy of uuencode/uudecode from Ohio State. ... The individual files
> were 1 byte longer each when I stripped off the header, and then I combined
> them into one file again and it was 2 bytes longer ...
>
Perhaps an "end-of-file" marker got added to each one?  DOS's  COPY  can do
that, and so can  FTP's  GET , with the wrong choice of ASCII vs. BINARY;
or perhaps an unwanted extra EOF or NL or CR got added by the editor you
split the files with.  [Then [con]cat[ena]ting them together will leave
you with those two unwanted added characters.]  You might be able to 
just filter them out, if they're different from the newline characters
terminating each line of your UUcode.
					-- Fred
Fred E.J. Linton  Wesleyan U. Math. Dept.  649 Sci. Tower  Middletown, CT 06459
E-mail:  <FLINTON@eagle.Wesleyan.EDU>     ( or  <fejlinton@{att|mci}mail.com> )
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols)
Subject: Re: 3b1 Memory Chips
Organization: D and D Data, Vienna VA
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:17:28 GMT

In article <1k18beINNfa3@umbc4.umbc.edu> hybl@umbc.edu (Dr. Albert Hybl) writes:
>Having finally located a cross-reference guide for RAMS, a useful
>list to have before starting a 3b1 memory upgrade project, I have
>extracted the equivalent designations used by the manufacturers to
>identify their 256x1 memory chips.

	Thank you!

	[ ... ]

>If someone knows of a good collection of illustrations showing the
>correlations between a LOGO stamped on a chip and its manufacturer,
>I think a reference to the document in the FAQ would be helpful
>to a novice starting a memory upgrade project.  [Better would be

	The best source that I have for that is the IC-Master databook.  It
is released on a yearly basis, and has a section showing the logos the
manufacturers use on the chips, and which manufacturer is associated with it.

	I haven't looked at a recent one, but the ones from a few years ago
are quite helpful with things like the 3B1.

	The book is quite expensive (as you would expect for something about
three inches thick with a shelf-life on one year), but distributors will
often deeply discount the old ones when the new ones come out.

	Good Luck
		DoN.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1,comp.sys.att
From: rrezaian@austral.chi.il.us (Russell Rezaian)
Subject: Re: ?? Has anyone ported X to 3B1 ??
Organization: D.O.C. Data Processing Systems
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:19:41 GMT

In article <1993Jan14.152624.7026@ncsu.edu> ssa@unity.ncsu.edu (S. Alavi) writes:
>	Is it possible to port X11R4/5 to 3B1? if so what are the 
>	requirements for a reasonable system (Hard Disk size, Memory etc)

While I don't think anyone has bothered to port a server to the 3B1, and
while I doubt anyone ever will port a server to the 3B1, I believe that
people have ported clients to the 3B1, and I see no reason why one
couldn't do this again.

You'd probably be crazy to try to run X clients on a 3B1 that had less
than the max RAM, and you'd need a good 60 to 80 megs of drive space free
to do this.  You'd also (obviously) need an Ethernet card and TCP/IP.
Which is to say you'd need a nearly maxed machine.

For R5 you might be able to trim things and just compile the libraries and
clients you were interested in (skipping things like PEX and the PEXlib
(for R5 later than pl20) stuff) but trying to prune the support libraries
would be a huge pain, and not exactly a task I'd want to undertake.

Good luck!  I'm still looking for an ethernet board and TCP/IP for mine so
I can talk between it and the things in my network (like Suns) that don't
have starlan 1 boards...
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From: aras@intercon.no (Arne Asplem)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Help needed to bring life back to my old UNIX PC
Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:45:52 +0100
Organization: Asplem Intercon, Oslo, Norway
NNTP-Posting-Host: kirov.intercon.no


Before I go any further with bringing life back to my old AT&T UNIX
PC 7300, I would like to check that I have all the required floppy
diskettes.

From the system manual box I have the following diskettes,
all are labelled "System Software, Version 3.51":

  Floppy Boot Disk (2/12)
  Floppy File System Disk (3/12)
  Hard Disk Boot (4/12)4/12)4/12)4/12)
  Foundation Set (5-12/12)
  Telephone Manager (1/1)
  Async. Terminal Emulation Disk (1/1)
  Encryption Set (1-2/2)
  Communication Patch (1/1)

Apparently I'm missing the first diskette in the Foundation Set,
the onle labelled 1/12. Do I need this ?

Furthermore, since I've never installed UNIX on a 3B1 before
(I traded i for a 2400 bps modem some time ago, and only used for
a couple of weeks before the hardisk crashed), do I need a serial no.
(well, I guess I have that on the original diskettes) or a installation
key ?

Is there a FTP archive with a FAQ for this group somewhere on the net ?
I'm particularly interested in replacing the floppy disk (it's a 360K 
isn't it ?) with a 3 1/2" 1.44 Meg, is this possible ?

Thanx for all the help so far !

  -- Arne
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From: sandy47@cats.ucsc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1,misc.forsale.computers.other,ba.market.computers
Subject: AT&T 3b1 Applications and Hdwe Addons For Sale
Date: 24 Jan 93 19:26:37 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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			AT&T 3B1 Addons & Manuals For Sale
			==================================


Slip Cased AT&T Manuals and Software:
------------------------------------					Price

Business Graphics							 50.00
Sound Presentations							 50.00
dBase III								 50.00
Paint Power								 50.00
Multiplan								 50.00
GSS-Chart								 50.00
GSS-Terminal								 50.00
Supercomp 20								 50.00
Wordstar 2000								 50.00
Wordprocessor								 50.00
Microsoft Word 								 50.00

AT&T Unix PC Manuals:
--------------------

Virtual Device Interface						 30.00
Communications Management User's Guide					 30.00
Model 7300 Owner's Manual						 30.00
Unix PC User's Manual							 50.00
Unix PC Owner's Manual							 30.00
Unix PC Getting Started							 20.00

Slip Cased 3rd Party Applications:
---------------------------------

Progress v3.2D Relational Database	Manuals/Disks			100.00
Progress v4.2G+ Relational Database 4GL	Manuals/Disks			250.00

/rdb Relational Database 4GL						 50.00


Hardware Addons:
---------------					              Qty	

AT&T Unix PC Expansion Unit w/card				1	350.00
AT&T Unix PC 23-MB Tape Unit w/card + 5 tapes			1	450.00
AT&T Unix PC DOS-73 Co-Processor card w/Manuals & software	1	150.00

0.5 MB RAM Expansion Card					5	 70.00
2.0 MB RAM Expansion Card					1	150.00
1.5 MB RAM Combo Serial Card					1	150.00

IBM SNA 3270 IRMA Card						1	150.00


Prices listed are firm per item, quantity discounts considered.  Prices do not
include shipping costs or insurance.                                    ======

Available also are 4-3b1/67MB and 3-7300/40MB systems loaded with 3.51m and 
other negotiable software.  Contact for base prices and customizing costs.


Larry McElhiney
c/o Plantronics, Inc.
345 Encinal Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

(408) 426-5858 x358

mack@mchome.santa-cruz.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: guy@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (guy.r.berentsen)
Subject: Re: Help needed to bring life back to my old UNIX PC
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:14:20 GMT
Summary: My favorite Disk for unix pc

In article <1993Jan24.055312.9796@d-and-d.com>, dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) writes:
> In article <1jrjreINNc4o@kirov.intercon.no> aras@intercon.no (Arne Asplem) writes:
> >I need some help to bring life back to my old UNIX PC. The 20 Meg.
> >harddisk crashed totally some time ago, and obviously the computer hasn't 
> >been used since. I need some information about which harddisks (controller
> >type, size, etc.) are supported ? Preferably something larger that 20
> >Meg. (in the range 60-100).
> 

> 
> First, my suggestion for the best drive to put in a 7300, which is what I
> presume you to have, since you are starting with a 20MB.  The best drive
> which I have found and used is the Miniscribe 3085, which is a half-height
> drive with seven heads (but greater than 1024 cylinders - don't worry, this
> is the easier thing to fix.)
> 

My favorite 7300 drive is the Seagate ST1100 
a.k.a. CDC swift (3.5" 9 Heads, A few more than 1024 cylinders)
150,000 Hours MTBF (17.1 years, so I need to do a backup in about 15 years ;->)
18ms acess time & very quiet.
From: rdavis@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Any graphics or better wp's for 7300?
Date: 24 Jan 1993 21:32:13 -0500
Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu

> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) wrote:
>>The only one that I am aware of is Picasso, an unadvertised package contained
>>do full blown mouse point/click/stretch etc. and generate pic.  Only if
>>you had a blit or 5620 as a display - this ain't X windows stuff....  Nor
>>does it seem to be available anymore, or on other platforms.  I've heard

Picasso was/is available for other platforms.  I have a version of it
running on one of my PERQ graphics workstations (I believe that the
PERQ is the system that it was originally written for).... yes,
there are PERQs alive and well in 1993! :-)  Additionally,
there is a version of Picasso available for that workstation of
lesser greatness, the Sun.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: nmw1638@ultb.isc.rit.edu (N.M. Williams)
Subject: Shutdown problems
Keywords: pascal compiler
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:50:45 GMT

Ok, I have a small problem that I can live with but would like to fix:
yesterday I tried to shutdown my 3b1, but instead of getting the typical
"YOU MAY NOW SWITCH THE POWER OFF" (or whatever it is it says) init
prompted me for a run-level to enter. It wouldn't go into single user,
(it flashed something like "No shell"), and since I didn't have any
getty's at any level other than 2 I had to go back into run level 2. Now
since I wanted the 3b1 *off* I did it again and then waited at the prompt
to see if init would sync every 30 secs, and since it didn't I assumed
it was ok to shut the power off. Next time I brought the system up there
were no fsck errors.

Now, I checked the shutdown script for any problems, I did killall and
then "init s" (I realize now that I didn't wait to see if init would
cause a reboot) and then I 'exit'ed the shell and got the same prompt
for a run-level. (The ony processes running before I exited the shell
were init pagedaemon and windaemon plus, of course, my ksh and ps).

Like I said, I can live with this since it seems safe to shut off my 3b1
at the run-level prompt, but it is annoying. Any ideas on what could be
wrong? Also how can I go into single-user mode from that prompt? (What
inittab entry do I need? I though ' ssh:s:respawn:sh </dev/console
>/dev/console' might do, but I don't have the man page for sh at hand).

Thanks,

Nick
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano)
Subject: Re: 3b1 Memory Chips
Organization: Multidisciplinary Designs Unlimited
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:04:36 GMT

In article <nIBXrAhMBh107h@lorc.eskimo.com> lowen@lorc.eskimo.com (Lamar Owen) writes:
>In <1j9dm6INNt3p@umbc4.umbc.edu> hybl@umbc3.umbc.edu (Dr. Albert Hybl) writes:
>>...
>
>>several M5M4256P-12 chips having LOGO of 3 diamonds in a triangle,
>I don't know the mfgr here, but they are 120ns.

Mitsubishi.

>...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Subject: Vote for computer peripherals
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:42:24 GMT

Who is the best in computer peripherls?

I used to go with the conventional wisdom from the PC world, namely, I always
tried to use-

Teac for disk drives (TI used MPI and later Shugart full height drives, I think
                      they also planned on Shugart half height DS/DD drives for
                      their DD controller?)

Epson for printers (the TI impact 99/4 printer was an Epson, same also for the
                    IBM PC OEM'ed printer)
Monitor- TI originally used Zenith (13"), then Japanese monitors for the
         scaled-down 10" size that we all know. Best monitor I have seen so far
         was a Zenith 14" composite+RGB 40-column monitor that somebody showed
         me.  The Magnavox 8CM515 (or a similar combination of numbers, you
         know what I am talking about...  the one Tex Comp sold until not too
         long ago) is of marginal display quality, I think, though its good
         price made it very popular.
Cassette recorder- TI used GE.
Hard drives- usual name is Seagate, I have little experience here.

After discussing (and trying) some other equipments from other persons' systems,
I think that Panasonic should be rated at the top.  I was very impressed with
their floppy drives and I heard only good words about thier printers.  Their
audio systems are also excellent so thier cassette tape playes are likely to
be good.  (I have used for a long time a Magnavox cassette player; for your own
sanity I would strongly recommend you do not buy Magnavox even if it is $10
cheaper!)
BTW, Magnavox is the North American brand name of the European Phillips.  I do
not know whether or not the products carrying the European brand name are
better.

For future reference and for the sake of those who seek peripherals, would be
interesting to relay your experience with peripherals...

Sorry if this is too trivial a topic to post here :-/

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