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From: stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
Date: 1 Jan 93 17:39:21 GMT
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center

The biggest loss I see is the work accumulated in source archives,
much (%?) of which was written for BSD/SunOS.  Yes, SVR4 includes
a Berkeley compatibility library ... which works sometimes (speaking
of SVR4, haven't tried recompiling on Solaris2.x yet).

In article <1992Dec28.184729.17486@eskimo.com> johnn@eskimo.com (John Navitsky) writes:
>Solaris 2.x will continue to improve.  I really think that
>Solaris 2.x > System VR4, not Solaris 2.x = System VR4.

So, all SVR4's won't be the same.
Solaris2.x has modload, SVR4 doesn't.
SVR4.2 seems to promise Novell included.  Will Solaris track SVR4.2?

Our experience is that SVR4 (from AT&T Federal Systems Division
for 3B2 RISC machines) has a lot of broken Berkeley derived code.
Not surprising, perhaps, given that the market is folks upgrading
from SVR3, who won't miss the Berkeley code.  Solaris2.x has most
of the Berkeley derived code working.  Will SVR4 track fixes from
Solaris?

-- 
Ron Stanonik
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: erodrigu@dcc.uchile.cl (Eduardo Rodriguez)
Subject: Re: Locating .au Files
Originator: erodrigu@tortel
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:58:54 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion


In article <1993Jan8.185208.21070@adobe.com>, (Scott Sivi) writes:
> I am trying to locate .au files that run under the SParc multimedia format.
> If you have any leads please drop me a reply.

Please add you address in *ANY* place of your article to reply.

edo...

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From: exodus@vsync.Eng.Sun.COM (Greg Onufer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: audio redirect?...
Date: 11 Jan 1993 17:18:12 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: vsync

In <schneck.726756674@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE> schneck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernhard Schneck) writes:
>This, of course, gives you 8-bit 8kHz mono output from a 16bit 44kHz
>stereo source ... hmpf.

Not on the newer Sun machines that support up to 16-bit, 48kHz, stereo.
Just set the audio format to CD or DAT before setting the monitor volume.
On the machines with the am79c30 audio chip, you are, of course, correct.

Cheers!greg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: kobet@picker.com (Harry Kobetitsch)
Subject: Emacs for Sun
Organization: Picker International, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:40:30 GMT


Does anyone know where I can obtain Emacs that has been
built for SPARCstations. I heard that executables for
Emacs are available.

-- 
Harry J. Kobetitsch
Picker International, Inc.
595 Miner Road
Highland Heights, Ohio 44143
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: detlev@dbha.toppoint.de (Detlev Habicht)
Subject: Re: Printing files >1M fia pcnfs
Organization: TOPPOINT Mailbox e.V.
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.misc
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 07:13:14 GMT

blake@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Blake Freeburg) writes:

>Hi,

>  I have finally hooked up a Laserjt II on a PC via pcnfs, with unix
>and dos people printing nicely.  Just one question now - how can I print
>files larger than a meg?  The lpr man pages mention that lpr kills them 
>after around a meg, but some of the Windows people are printing documents/
>graphics that are larger than a meg.

>  Any help out there?  Systems in question: Sparc II, OS 3.xx, PC-NFS 4.0

>Blake Freeburg

Have a look in the /etc/printcap-file, here is my version for nearly the
same situation:

lp|hp|HP LaserJet IIP:\
        :lp=/dev/ttyb:br#19200:\
        :mx#0:ms=pass8,ixon,raw,crtscts:\
        :sh:\
        :tr=:\
        :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:

Very important is mx. The manual says:

     mx   num  1000               maximum    file    size     (in
                                  BUFSIZ                 blocks),
                                  zero        =         unlimited

I hope this helps. I have the same trouble for a few weeks!

Detlev

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From: svb@svb.guug.de (Sebastian v. Bomhard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Dumb question about at/batch
Date: 4 Jan 93 01:35:37 GMT
Organization: v. Bomhard Unternehmensberatung

In article <197@svb.guug.de> I wrote:
  >In article <16126@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:

  >    >This is a very unimportant question I've always's wondered about.
  >    >When using the at or batch commands, some seemingly random number
  >    >is assigned to the job.  At first I thought it might be be the PID of
  >    >a process but apparently not.  So, where does this number come from?

  >    It's the i-number of the file in "/usr/spool/cron/atjobs" containing the
  >    commands to run.

  >Are you sure? Then I'm very surprised that on my machines those "inode
  >numbers" match exactly the time (GMT) in seconds when the job is to be
  >started.

I should set something straight: I didn't want to be nasty to Guy, it
was mainly a misunderstanding about "job numbers". I mixed up SunOS < 5.0
with SysV, what a sacrilegue(sp?) :-)

And, of course, Guy is right, I checked it out on a SunOS 4.1.1.

Sorry for the confusion!

Regards,

  -svb.

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From: toomajia@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Mark Toomajian)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:13:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Performance tuning
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc

One great book is "System Performance Tuning" by Mike Loukides.  It's
published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 

Mark T.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: louis@krabat.marco.de (Ju"rgen Fluk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: SS2 clone sync and halt
Date: 4 Jan 93 11:24:05 GMT
Organization: marco GmbH, D-8047 Karlsfeld

I got problems on a Hyundai SS2 clone running SunOS 4.1.2, the
boot sequence tells something like "romvec version 2":

- After breaking the kernel with L1-A, I change to "new-mode".
  typing "sync" tells "panic: zero", syncs the harddisk and dumps
  the system afterwards (because of the panic ?), which is boring.

- Both "halt" and "fasthalt" are rebooting the machine just like
  "reboot" and "fastboot" do. So I have to watch the machine and
  type L1-A in just the right moment to really stop it.

Are these problems based on the boot prom or on the clone hardware
or on boot parameter settings ? Any solutions ?

[our distributor is a clone only (:-)]

thanx, louis
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: eidem@itk.unit.no (Kjell Eidem)
Subject:  Modem communication
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology / SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 13:27:39 GMT

I have a need for file transfers between Sun and PC via modem and is
seeking suitable software doing this.
I know/have Kermit, but is interesting in other other programs, x/y/z-modem or similar.
Any experiences, recommandations and hints are welcome.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: roihar@cc4.crl.aecl.ca
Subject: need to communicate and autologin via serial on SS2 (SunOS 4.1.1)
Organization: AECL RESEARCH
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:16:26 GMT

Hello fello netters...

I'm currently attempting to get our SPARCstation 2 serial port talking to a
Concurrent 3280 superminicomputer using cu under SunOS 4.1.1. I don't need 
file transfer capabilities, just the ability to communicate in 7 bit, even
parity ASCII. I modified the /etc/uucp/Systems file and the /etc/uucp/Devices
file and using the command cu -e <system> am attempting to talk with the
superminicomputer. I can talk just fine but I'd like to automatically log 
into the system. cu is either not recognizing my login information field
in the Systems file OR it's not sending and receiving properly. I'm running
cu in a shelltool (shelltool cu -e ccur &     OR
                   shelltool -I cu\ -e\ ccur\ &) but neither of these seem to
work properly. The connection is made properly but no automatic login! It doesn't send out anything on the line (/dev/ttya) or seem to receive anything
from it (/dev/ttya) no matter how I change the login field in the Systems
file. Once the connection is established, however, anything I type goes out to
the port and and the Concurrent responds as expected. Anybody have any idea
what I might be doing wrong?

I'm not stuck on cu. I'll use anything that I can get the source code (smaller
the better) for to do the same job (i.e. communicate and allow autologin).
Anybody got any pointers to any other public domain or standard Unix utilities
that'll do this? I eventually want to have a program on the workstation 
communicating with a program on the superminicomputer via the serial RS232 line.

		Please respond directly to Martin Thompson
		at one of the following Internet email addresses:

			roihar@crl.aecl.ca (preferred)

		OR

			root@cu48.crl.aecl.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: jim@thor.albany.edu (SCHLEMMER JAMES A)
Subject: Mailtool question
Keywords: ioctl termio 
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 17:02:34 GMT

Does anyone know if there is a way to have outgoing mailmessages saved
automatically?  i.e., when I send a mail message to jdoe@podunk.edu,
I want a copy to be squirreled away somewhere.

Thanks,

Jim

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,rec.sport.football.misc,rec.sport.basketball.misc,rec.sport.baseball,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.open-look
From: ron@mlfarm.com (Ronald Florence)
Subject: "sports" games for X-Windows
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Maple Lawn Farm, Stonington, CT
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:17:27 GMT

My son, aged 14, would like me to build some sports-oriented games he
can play on our little network of Sun-3/60s and 3/80s, running Open
Windows.  He plays in an EFBL rotisserie league via email, and enjoys
xtank, xconq, xtrek, xmris, and tetris.  He is jealous of friends with
Nintendo or ms-dos machines with color displays and commercial games.
I think he'd particularly enjoy X-Windows games based on baseball,
football, or basketball.  Any suggestions?

Please reply by email.  If there is much interest, I'll post a summary
of replies.  Thanks.
-- 

				Ronald Florence
				ron@mlfarm.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: pjp@sloth.mlb.semi.harris.com (Pat J. Pinchera)
Subject: Re: Serial Commmunication between a Sun IPC and 68000
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:11:25 GMT
Organization: Interface & Control Systems, Inc., Melbourne FL

In article <1993Jan7.223609.16598@mlb.semi.harris.com> pjp@sloth.mlb.semi.harris.com (I) wrote:
>I've been trying to use the serial port on our Sun IPC for communications
>with a 68000 single board computer.  I'm able to write data to it but unable
>to read data from it.
>
>Through lots of little test programs, I can read and write through the
>serial ports on the Sun (i.e. Sun connected to a terminal, read and write), 
>and did the same thing with the 68000.  But when it comes to getting the two
>to talk to one another, the Sun can not read from the 68000.
>
>The method I'm using is to open the /dev/ttyb file via 'open',
[stuff deleted]

I've narrowed down the problem.  The read that takes place on the Sun (of
the serial port) really doesn't do anything until it sees a new-line
<NL>.  That is when the read happens and data is obtained.  If data is
coming over to the serial line and there is no <NL>, then the read never
sees it.  That's why my test programs with the serial port connected to
a DEC Terminal work, the DEC Terminal always sends the <NL>.

OK, so how can I make the read happen without those nasty little <NL>'s?

Pat
From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
Date: 1 Jan 93 06:03:06 GMT
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ

>I think it was more like, Sun see's the industry moving towards System V,

It wasn't.

>bottom floor.  Sun & AT&T make the deal, & Sun pays less royalties

...by passing along the cost the user.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin
From: marsh@aristo.tau.ac.il (Marshall Rapaport)
Subject: HP-DAT problems
Organization: Tel-Aviv University Computation Center
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 12:45:17 GMT

HI,
  I have an HP-DAT drive attached to a Sparc-2 running SUNOS 4.1.2. This
drive has the compression feature. A switch has been added to the DAT to
choose between the low density and high density. The following problems
have arisen:

1. When trying to read a low density 4mm tape created on a WANG-2000 DAT -
I get an I/O error.  Are low density DAT's between different vendor
compatitible? Is there anyway to read this tape on my HP drive?

2. After backing up files to the HP-dat using compression (high density),
I can't rewrite on this tape using the normal density. The tape must be
erased using "mt erase". This command for some reason hangs and the only
way to use the drive is to reboot the machine.  Has anyone encountered
problems like this?


                           Regards,
                           Marshall Rapaport
                           email: marsh@aristo.tau.ac.il
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: hue@island.COM (Pond Scum)
Subject: Re: System Mode Swamp on Sparc 2
Organization: Island Graphics Corp.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:45:01 GMT

fmrco!msommer@uunet.uu.net (Mark Sommer) writes:
>My program calls a Fortran function to solve a large quadratic
>programming problem. The program is extremely computationally
>intensive and it runs very large (>10MB), but my machine has 48MB of
>memory and lots of swap space (>80MB), so I would have expected it to
>spend most of its time in user mode. In fact, according to many
>indicators (such as gprof), it spends most of its time in kernel mode.

Warning: I really have no idea what's going on here, this is just a guess,
plus I have a bad memory.

Could it be that your program is generating a lot of exceptions
(floating point exceptions) and is having to drop into the kernel to
handle these exceptions?

Another possibility is that your program was compiled to use some
sort of floating point coprocessor, and it's not present so you're
trapping on every operation and the kernel is emulating it.  I think
this used to happen on Sun-4/110s.

-Jonathan		hue@island.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: joem@alw.nih.gov (Joe Maisog)
Subject: please help: bitpad driver and Sun SPARCstation
Keywords: bitpad driver Sun SPARC
Organization: National Inst. of Health, DCRT, CSL
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:03:29 GMT



Our lab is using a Sun SPARCstation for much of our image-processing
and we would like to use a bitpad (aka "digitizing pad") and stylus
("pen") instead of a mouse to draw our regions of interest.

There are several bitpads which can attach to the Sun SPARCstation,
including the Microgrid III and the SummaSketch II Plus by
Summagraphics, but we have not been able to find *any* software to
drive any bitpad for a SPARCstation.  Does anyone out there know of
any bitpad drivers for SPARCstations?

Please send any information to joem@alw.nih.gov or diane@alw.nih.gov.
Or call (301) 402-1737, and ask for Joe or Diane.  We would very much
appreciate any help.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: lester@naomi.b23b.ingr.com (Les Bartel)
Subject:  Need xterm keyboard mappings
Reply-To: lester@naomi.b23b.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:24:51 GMT

I have figured out many of the keyboard key mappings for xterm, but there
are a few that baffle me.  These are the 'diamond' keys, alt graph and
delete.  I assume the 'diamond' keys and alt graph key are key modifiers
much like shift and control.  How do I make use of these keys as modifiers,
and how do I distinguish between the two delete keys?  Also, how do I switch
modes such that my numeric keypad will emit numbers or control sequences
depending on the mode?  A specific answer would be fine, but a complete
description for every key would be even better.
 
Following is a portion of my keymappings from my .Xdefaults file:
 
xterm*VT100*Translations: #override\
      Shift <KeyPress> Up: scroll-back(1,page) \n\
    Shift <KeyPress> Down: scroll-forw(1,page) \n\
    Shift <KeyPress> Left: scroll-back(50,page) \n\
   Shift <KeyPress> Right: scroll-forw(50,page) \n\
        Alt <KeyPress> R7: scroll-back(1,line) \n\
       Alt <KeyPress> R13: scroll-forw(1,line) \n\
        Alt <KeyPress> R8: scroll-back(1,page) \n\
       Alt <KeyPress> R14: scroll-forw(1,page) \n\
        Alt <KeyPress> R9: scroll-back(50,page) \n\
       Alt <KeyPress> R15: scroll-forw(50,page) \n
 
For the above mappings that use Alt, I would like to use the 'Alt Graph'
key instead.
 
Many thanks in advance.
 
 - les
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: benny@csoc.COM (Benny Clark)
Subject: Who writes "Flexible License Manager?"
Organization: CAD Systems of Carolina
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:08:40 GMT

If you know, please email.

Thanks,

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  /  /     _/   5625 Dillard Dr. Suite 105     Email : ice@csoc.COM
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From: klee@aero.org (Kevin D. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: NeWSprint and HP DeskJet 500C
Date: 11 Jan 1993 21:30:20 GMT
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aerospace.aero.org

Has anyone figured out how to connect an HP DeskJet 500C color printer to a
Sun using NeWSprint?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-- 
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The Aerospace Corp.    P.O. Box 92957,   Los Angeles, CA    90009-2957
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: abi@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Abi Akanbi)
Subject: Looking for spreadsheet software from a shareware site
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:32:14 GMT

I am looking for a shareware site that has a spreadsheet program which will accept Lotus file format.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: rehmann@cscs.ch      (Rene Rehmann, CSCS - Staff)
Subject: Re: TTY interface to cm(1)?
Reply-To: rehmann@cscs.ch     
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Berne, Switzerland
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:32:15 GMT

In article 11627@crd.ge.com, halvers@procyon.crd.ge.com (peter c halverson) writes:
>Has anyone ever heard of a tty-based interface to the "database" used by
>the cm(1) calendar manager?  I'd like to be able to check my appointments
>from a remote login, and running X on my home machine just to support cm(1)
>seems a bit much :-)   Something as simple as a command to show all the
>appointments on a given date would be more than adequate.

Try the cm_lookup cm_delete and cm_insert commands. They should come with the standard
OW3 distribution.


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		Via Cantonale, CH-6928 Manno, Switzerland
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fax  :		+41 91 50 67 11             rehmann@iam.unibe.ch

Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.apps:2944 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:5923
From: pccl@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (paul.c.liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: tcp_mss "downshift" with consecutive rcp's
Keywords: tcp_mss is reduced from 1460 to 512
Date: 12 Jan 93 00:38:54 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

A while ago, I recall a netter from SGI posted an article
detailing a BSD TCP bug fix for the tcp_mss "downshift" symptom.

Symptom: consecutive "rcp remhost:remfil locfil" will result
	 in smaller TCP payload (i.e. from 1460-byte to 512-byte),
	 unless there is 60+ seconds time gap in between.

To reproduce: use three Suns, on sun_a, do 
	rcp sun_b:file1 file1, and
	rcp sun_b:file2 file2
	and run tcpdump/etherfind on sun_c to trace the network traffic.

Pointers are appreciated!

Paul.C.Liu@ATT.COM
From: cse0603@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Fortran compilier for SUN?
Date: 11 Jan 93 12:38:20 EST
Organization:  Wright State University 

Hello

Does anyone know of a Fortran compilier for a SUN Sparc?  I need one that will
allow me to download the executable to a 68030 Single Board Computer.  Any
pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks.

-Steve
cse0603@desire.wright.edu