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From: jka@windshear.larc.nasa.gov (J. Keith Alston)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: starting X in SCO ODT
Date: 11 Nov 1992 00:46:43 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Distribution: world
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Originator: jka@windshear.larc.nasa.gov


Hi,
  I'm running SCO ODT (not sure which version). When I attempt to
  start the X window system, with startx, I get the following
  message:
   open event driver failed: no such file or directory

  does anyone out there have any idea what might be causing
  this problem?????

Thanks
-Keith Alston
 jka@windshear.larc.nasa.gov
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,biz.sco.opendesktop,biz.sco.general
From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Subject: Re: anyone have faxmodem under unix?
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 01:00:28 GMT

>If anyone has a fax-modem operational on a PC 
>running Interactive Unix, or any PC UNIX operating system,
>I would like to hear what hardware and software you are using,
>and any comments you may have.  If this is an external modem,
>and/or the software is running under VPIX, even better.
>Please mail this information to jeffg@world.std.com
>and I will post a summary. 
>

Running under vpix is even better?  Ugh!  I don't think so.

I've had an Everex 24/96E external modem coupled with Trufax software
working with ISC 2.0.2 for a couple years now.  But I think the gnu
netfax package is supposed to work with a different version of that
modem, and it's free.

I paid ~$300 for the modem, it's probably less now.  Seems to work
well with any serial port.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore)
Subject: Re: Not enough space
Organization: American Micro Group, Ft. Lee  NJ
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 02:42:41 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.133143.15530@litwin.com> hoang1@litwin.com (Ted Hoang) writes:
>Hi,
>I have the problem when running my program.
>I get this error message:
>"Not enough space"
>Any ideas?
Make more space. :)
>Any kernel vars I can change their value?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Ted Hoang
>Email:hoang1@litwin.dynsim1.com
>
>Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
>Subject: Not enough space
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: crawls@dorsai.com (Charles Rawls)
Subject: test
Organization: The Dorsai Embassy +1.718.729.5018
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:52:10 GMT


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From: yen@gradient.gradient.com (Chung Yen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: driver for pocket LAN adaptor on SVR4
Keywords: network, SVR4, pocket LAN adaptor, ethernet
Date: 11 Nov 92 23:00:34 GMT
Organization: Gradient Technologies Inc., Hudson MA

I've a 486 notebook running SVR4.0 and a pocket LAN adaptor from D-Link
connecting to Ethernet through a parallel port.  I've been looking around
to find a suitable driver to get the networking going; the adaptor vendors
supply drivers for DOS/Windows/OS2 environments only. :-(  Will greatly
appreciate it if anyone can point me to where I can get the driver.  Please
e-mail the info to yen@gradient.com.  Thanks in advance.

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From: ba014@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Matthew C. Brinkhoff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Using 16550AFN with SCO 3.2.4
Date: 5 Nov 1992 16:31:38 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ba014@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Matthew C. Brinkhoff)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I've got SCO SVR3.2.4 and I'm attempting to use a V.32 modem with the
port rate locked at 19.2kbps.  With RTS/CTS flow control, I'm losing
characters like mad...  I installed a 16550AFN UART on the COM2 port
(where the modem resides), but it doesn't seem to be enabled (?).

Q1:  Can I get SCO to enable the UART??

Q2:  Is it possible that this will solve my problem?


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore)
Subject: Re: ARCHIVE SCSI ST525 TAPE AND ISC UNIX 3.01 WONT WRITE
Organization: American Micro Group, Ft. Lee  NJ
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 16:25:00 GMT

In article <1dh71nINN52o@uwm.edu> peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Peter J Diaz de Leon) writes:
>I recently bought a Archive ST525 SCSI tape drive and
>am running it on a DPT EISA SCSI controler under
>ISC UNIX SYS 5 R3 V:3.0.1
>
>The tape drive has been set for SCSI ID 2.
>I am able to use the "mt" command to retension
>and rewind and erase the tape in the drive.
>The mt command with the "-v" option gives me
>the following:
>
>       Found scsi tape:
>              speed = 0
>	      flags = 0x2118
>	      spare = 0
>	      media = 0
>	      recsiz = 512
>
>       Rewind status 0
>
>However, when I try to write out to the tape
>using tar or cpio I get:
>
>I/O error on write(), errno 5, I/O error
>
>I get a very similar message if I try to read of 
>a tape made on another machine.  
>
>By the way the tape in the tape drive is a
>DC6150.  I have not had a chance to go and buy
>6525 tapes yet. Could this be the problem?

No, that's not the problem. Do you know that the drive works?

What is the tar or cpio command you give to write to or read from
the tape device?

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore)
Subject: Re: ISC 2.2 (Sys V Rel 3.2) Adding Swap?
Organization: American Micro Group, Ft. Lee  NJ
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:54:33 GMT

In article <1dbrn2INN9ch@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> stlouis@unixg.ubc.ca (Phill St. Louis) writes:
>I have read the manual and the 386 FAQ, and my question was not answered, so...
>
>When adding a second disk to an ISC Sys V Rel. 3.2 machine, in the partitioning,
>the screen comes up with a partition for swap.  Does this work for adding
>extra swap?  It seems too simple to believe.  I have previously added disks
>to a Sun and the documentation for SunOs states very clearly how to do it,
>but the ISC docs are lacking in info about this stuff.
>
>The person who installed the operating system on this machine did not set
>asside enough swap and I would like to add some more with the second disk.
>
>Phill St-Louis
>Health Care & Epidemiology
>U.B.C.

It works. When you're done, type `swap -l` and see what you get.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: ahahma@polaris.utu.fi (Arno Hahma)
Subject: Re: ISC 3.0 multiple FDISK partitions?
Organization: University of Turku
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 14:17:26 GMT

In article <BxKy06.E2s@maxed.amg.com> root@maxed.amg.com
(0000-Admin(0000)) writes:

>In article <BxKEKD.v0@ad4su1.rsre.mod.uk>
druid%caercn@ajax.rsre.mod.uk (ad4su1) writes:

>>I would also like to use the third partition for ISC, as a home partition.

>>Is this possible?

Sure!

>>		Mark.

>Your 3rd partition is unuseable from your 2nd unix partition, since it
>is a "hard" parition not a soft partition as is used for filesystems

Although it is a hard partition, you can use mkfs to make a filesystem
on it (provided you have partitioned the disk correctly) and then
mount the partition normally. "man mkfs" will tell you how to use the
command, or you might also use mkvffs for a different filesystem.
After you have made the filesystem, just mount it somewhere you wish.
To do that automatically, you will have to edit some of the rc?.d
-files (grep -ni mount rc?.?), that are executed when the machine is
booted (I think the rc -files are in /etc, do a "find / -name rc?.?
-print" to find them, if I remembered incorrect).

>If you wish to access the space you will need to repartition the 2nd 
>and 3rd as one, and then restore.

I would do so as well. Although the system will work with more than
one hard partition, why do it so difficultly. I think it is more clear
to have one hard partition/hard drive (unless you have the MS-DOS on
your disk).

>Ed Whittemore   uunet!maxed!ed   ed@maxed.amg.com
>American Micro Group, Inc.   201-944-3293

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From: peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Peter J Diaz de Leon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: ARCHIVE SCSI ST525 TAPE AND ISC UNIX 3.01 WONT WRITE
Date: 7 Nov 1992 19:56:39 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.9.13

I recently bought a Archive ST525 SCSI tape drive and
am running it on a DPT EISA SCSI controler under
ISC UNIX SYS 5 R3 V:3.0.1

The tape drive has been set for SCSI ID 2.
I am able to use the "mt" command to retension
and rewind and erase the tape in the drive.
The mt command with the "-v" option gives me
the following:

       Found scsi tape:
              speed = 0
	      flags = 0x2118
	      spare = 0
	      media = 0
	      recsiz = 512

       Rewind status 0

However, when I try to write out to the tape
using tar or cpio I get:

I/O error on write(), errno 5, I/O error

I get a very similar message if I try to read of 
a tape made on another machine.  

By the way the tape in the tape drive is a
DC6150.  I have not had a chance to go and buy
6525 tapes yet. Could this be the problem?
The vendor I bought the tape drive says no.

I need to get this running since I have not backed
up my system in 3 weeks when my old tape drive
died.

Thanks
Peter
(peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu)


Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: steph@sco.COM (The Steph)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP and NetBIOS under SCO ODT 1.0
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:20:53 GMT
Keywords: TCP/IP, NetBIOS


berger@castor.cs.uga.edu (Chilli Willi) writes:

>Has anyone used TCP/IP and NetBIOS simultaneously on their SCO box?  I
>specify that I want to use TCP with a particular network card, but I can't
>seem to find out how to tell NetBIOS to use the second card.

Well, The NetBIOS provided is only a B (broadcast) mode NetBIOS, so it only
knows how to work over one interface.  It uses the first configured interface
by default.

There is a script (/etc/netbios) which parses the output of 'netstat -i' to determine
which interfaces are present, and uses the first one reported.  You can either modify
this script, or alter the ordering of your interfaces by changing the order of the 
'ifconfig' commands in /etc/tcp.  

I think you and I are both assuming that the call()'s are failing because they're going
out onto the wrong net.  If so, this will fix that.

Steph.
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From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,biz.sco.opendesktop,biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: Bug with ScoSession connecting to XTerm with >16 colors
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:47:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: Celestia.1992Nov05.164746.25393
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA

In <Bx863s.6oL@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:

:In article <1992Nov4.191635.4114@bnr.ca> Jonathan P. Crone <cronejp@bnr.ca> writes:
:>cpp: line 61, Error: Unterminated string
:>! We're on a 256 color or more server
:>1 error in preprocessor

:This is a problem that frequently crops up in programs, like xrdb,
:that expect to be able to use /usr/lib/cpp as a general-purpose text
:preprocessor.  You used to be able to do that with old K&R C
:preprocessors, but the ANSI C committee ruled that the preprocessor
:does not have to accept illegal C code.  SCO's preprocessor conforms
:to the ANSI C standard, and so it rejects illegal C code.  The
:apostrophe is what's getting you; the preprocessor sees the "'" and
:thinks it's going to get a character constant, but then it doesn't see
:a valid character constant string.

Another solution that I use is to install gcc on my client sites
and use it for pre-processing with the -traditional option.  I
have a shell script 'cpp' in the PATH prior to the system cpp
which calls gcc with the appropriate flags.  I started doing this
because I use cpp as a preprocessor for UNIFY RPT and SQL scripts
and my clients didn't really need the full DevSys.

Bill
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From: ba014@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Matthew C. Brinkhoff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: PubDomain TCP/IP &/or NFS for SCO?
Date: 11 Nov 1992 20:33:13 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ba014@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Matthew C. Brinkhoff)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Just a curiousity question:

Is there a FTPable implimentation of TCP/IP &/or NFS available that can
be made to run under SCO Unix SVR3.2.4?

Just thought I'd ask before I spent the outrageous $$$s for SCO's.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.sys5.r4
From: gie@charon.er.usgs.gov (Gerald I. Evenden)
Subject: tar problems
Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 16:40:04 GMT

I am having problems with tar files created under Dell SVR4-i2.2 not
un-tar-ing properly on other systems.  More specifically, directories
in the tar file will *NOT* expand to a directory, but instead get
created as an executable, zero length file.  Some detective work has
shown that the name field in the SVR4 tar is not suffixed with a "/"
as in a non-SVR4 tar and mode value also differs.  I have also used the
latest version of GNU's cpio with "-H tar" and get the same results
as with the SVR4 tar.  Foreign tars have always been successfully
processed by SVR4, but the other direction is a bust.

This seems to be a bug/problem related to issue 2.2 because I do not
remember having this trouble with issue 2.1 last spring.

It is interesting that GNU cpio and Dell tar tend to agree on format.

Any comments or workarounds would be appreciated.

In the meantime, I'll try cpio which has its own problems with inodes
greater than 65k---why the inodes are recorded is a mystery.

Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: staceyc@sco.COM (Stacey Campbell)
Subject: Re: Two Xfree86 questions
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 17:32:08 GMT


In article <1992Nov4.175056.24918@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
>I have heard that SCO's server works by dynamically loading the 
>appropriate driver(s) at run time.  Is that true?

It is.  We found that keeping the core server (/usr/bin/X11/Xsco), the
drawing engines for each class of video card (SVGA, XGA, 8514/A, S3, and
so on), and the board specific initialization code (/usr/lib/grafinfo/*/*)
independent of each other to be the most flexible way to support a bunch
of cards, get reasonable performance, make it real easy to write support
for a new card, and to enable us to move to X11R5 without (in theory)
touching a single line of our card specific drawing code.  This turned out
to be as difficult an engineering job as it sounds.  ;-)

Now we run a two day "X Server Linkkit Class" where video hardware vendors
can come along and get a full-blown X server up and running in one day on
a brand new class of video chip, and then get some optimizations thrown in
on the second day.  Then later when they have got their software up to
a good speed and got the bugs out they can ship a dynamic driver that will
load into the X server already installed on the system.

>If so (and you are allowed to tell :->), how does that work?  I thought
>that SVR3 didn't support dynamically loadable objects.

I'm pretty sure that the 20 pages of fine print I signed when I started
here included the line "...and you will not blab trickey source code
hacks to people on the net...", however, if you recall the old BSD rogue
game that would save itself by writing its core to a file then restore
the game by "unexecing" itself (Franz Lisp and older TeX versions also used
this trick), well we do something similar though in my opinion even
nastier.  So even though SVR3.2 doesn't come with dynamic loading it can
be added at the user program level.
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From: root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: AT&T Release 3.2 and COM3?
Date: 10 Nov 92 02:56:05 GMT
Organization: a consultant's basement
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Bob Schreibmaier (k2ph@dxis.att.com) wrote:
: I'm still pretty early on the learning curve for 386 UNIX,
: so I have one of those beginner questions...
: 
: I have AT&T System V/386 Release 3.2 Version 2.3, which
: initially came with only COM1 (tty00, tty00h, and tty00s)
: configured.  I was successfully able to add COM2 as
: tty01, tty01h, and tty01s to the kernel.  However, I would
: like to be able to use an internal modem card as COM3.
: First of all, is this even possible?  I assume the correct
: entry to add to /etc/conf/sdevice.d/asy would be:
: 
: asy	Y	1	7	1	2	3e8	3ef	0	0
: 
: Is this correct?  What should be added to /etc/conf/node.d/asy?
: 
: Thanks in advance for any help.

It is my understanding that the stock ATT asy driver will only handle 2
com ports.  There are two solutions:

	1) install fas, a PD asy driver replacement widely available ( I
don't know where, though)

	2) this option is funky.  Basically install the asy driver twice
in the kernel by copying and binary editing the Driver.o file so all
asy's become as2's, and installing a new driver called as2.  You also
have to make an as2.h out of asy.h, and change the one or two local
variables in the driver that do not have asy in them to any unused
symbol name.  Edit a new space.c and as2.h files to use the ports and
interrupts you desire.  I have done it on my machine and it works fine.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: george@wixer.cactus.org (George Wenzel)
Subject: Re: ISC 2.2 (Sys V Rel 3.2) Adding Swap?
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 23:52:50 GMT

In article <BxAp6y.4Mr@maxed.amg.com> ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore) writes:
>In article <1dbrn2INN9ch@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> stlouis@unixg.ubc.ca (Phill St. Louis) writes:
>>I have read the manual and the 386 FAQ, and my question was not answered, so...
>>
>>When adding a second disk to an ISC Sys V Rel. 3.2 machine, in the partitioning,
>>the screen comes up with a partition for swap.  Does this work for adding
>>extra swap?  It seems too simple to believe.  I have previously added disks
>>to a Sun and the documentation for SunOs states very clearly how to do it,
>>but the ISC docs are lacking in info about this stuff.
>>
>
>It works. When you're done, type `swap -l` and see what you get.

Almost but not quite.  Read the man-page for swap.  Simply creating the
partition does not add it to the swap space... there is a swap command you
need to execute, and put in your rc3.d somewhere. 

The command is "swap -a /dev/dsk/1s1 0 123456"... where /dev/dsk/1s1 is the
device, 0 is the starting block, and 123456 is the length.

If you look in /etc/partitions for the swap areas, you can find the above
numbers for the device (the first digit is the drive number, than an s,
then one more digit indicating the partition number).

Be sure to get the length correct... swap won't check, so you could trash
something.

George
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From: bh@eng.auburn.edu (Brian Hartsfield)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Tape Drive info wanted
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:08:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: lab12.bh.921109100848
Organization: Auburn University Engineering

I'm plannning on buying a tape drive shortly and I would  like to get one that I can
use with UNIX (which I plan to upgrade to in the next few months).  Price is a 
consideration.  Any information or suggestions on tape drives & controllers
and information on how much I should exspect to pay would be appreciated.

bh@eng.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: HELP! needed identifying ethernet board needed.
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:41:34 GMT



Hi All,

A customer of mine has an AT&T 6386 WGS UNIX Box.  He wants to add TCP/IP to
the box, so he purchased the WIN TCP/IP from AT&T.  This package is now
installed, but the customers SMC ethernet board does not seem to be the one
required by the software.  

The documentation references an AT&T StarLan NI board, and a StarLan NP600A
board.  These look like Racal-Datacomm boards that were OEMed by AT&T.  I would
like to get some verification on which ethernet boards my customer needs to
purchase.  I will try talking to AT&T and R-D today, but AT&T has a great game
of 800-it's-not-my-department phone tag.  I spend over an hour on hold
yesterday with AT&T as employee after employee gave me 800 number after 800
number.  No one was able to answer my question.  When I finally got to a
support line where they thought they could help I was told I would be called
back.  No time was given for the call back, and it did not come.

Please help me identify the board I need to buy.

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From: druid%caercn@ajax.rsre.mod.uk (ad4su1)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: ISC 3.0 multiple FDISK partitions?
Date: 11 Nov 92 18:41:00 GMT
Organization: CAD4 Division DRA Malvern
Originator: druid@ad4su3

On my hard disk I have three *real* partitions---i.e., created with FDISK.
The first is for DOS, the second for ISC 3.0, the third is spare.
I would also like to use the third partition for ISC, as a home partition.

Is this possible?

It seems to me that ISC only ever looks at the first UNIX partition,
which it divides into several of what it calls partitions. I am not
able to re-FDISK at this stage and thus merge the second and third
partitions.

Can anyone suggest how I can make use of my third partition from UNIX?

	Regards and thanks,

		Mark.
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