HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: atsuo@harl.hitachi (Atsuo Kawaguchi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386bsd] How do I config a SCSI tape into my system?
Date: 26 Aug 92 09:14:56 GMT
Organization: Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd
In-reply-to: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au's message of 26 Aug 1992 15:19:58 JST

David> The subject says it all. Here is my current config, note that
David> access to /dev/ras0a returns 'Bad File Descriptor'.
I saw this error last night. Check the major & minor no. of
/dev/ras??s'. In my case, the value of /dev/ras4a were wrong. After
correcting the values, I got a tape drive running fine.

--
Atsuo, Kawaguchi
Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
atsuo@harl.hitachi.co.jp
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
Subject: Re: An overview of 17" monitors
Reply-To: witr@rwwa.com
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:21:58 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.061343@eklektix.com>, rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
| I've been watching monitor prices over the past 1.5-2 years.  THe 
| inescapable conclusion is that they are not changing *at*all*. 

This may be true for 17 inchers, but 20 inch monitors *have* dropped 
substantially.  Of course that still doesn't make them exactly
affordable!   ;-)

-- 
---
 Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA 01907 USA
 Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430, Net: witr@rwwa.COM
From: overby@cray.com (Glen Overby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Allways IN-2000 SCSI Cont
Date: 23 Aug 92 20:24:56 GMT
Organization: ^$

In article <2192.100.uupcb@digund.uucp> copernicus@digund.uucp (Copernicus)  writes:
>Can someone please tell me whether or not 386BSD supports the ALLWAYS
>IN-2000 controller?  Before I download everything Id like to know if

No, the Allways controler is not supported.

A year and a half ago when I was purchasing a SCSI drive and controler, I
called Allways and asked for technical information on their controler (a
register-level description would probably be sufficient to write drivers
for the controler) and was very curteously told "no way".  

The controler has a WD SCSI chip, but a LOT of other logic (two PGAs)
around it.  I expect it's a pretty simple controler, but their
unwillingness to give out details ment that it wouldn't be useful to me (I
was running only Minix in those days).  Reverse-engineering their ROMs is
always an option.

Glen Overby
From: zvi@nynexst.com (Zvi Guter)
Subject: Unable to boot dist.fs.
Organization: NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 12:44:02 GMT


I am unable to boot {dist, fixit}.fs in any of the varieties
outhere. The boot process begins, I can see some output about
the different devices and a message about the root partition.
What follows next, is to fast for me to read. Something about
vm fault, then something about RAM and the machine reboots.
It continues this cycle forever.
I remember seeing some discussion about such a problem in the
first days 0.1 was out. Unfortunately, I did not save those
articles.
The machine configuration: (Gateway 2000)
	486/33
	8 Mb RAM, external cache
	200 Mb IDE drive
	floppy drives
	SpeedStar+, 1M on board

I have already disabled all external/internal cache, BIOS relocate
and slowed the machine down.


I would very much appreciate any hints/help.


Zvi Guter

email: zvi@nynexst.com
phone: (914) 644-2048
From: zxmsd01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Gunther Schadow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: 386BSD: SWI-Prolog at agate!
Date: 31 Aug 92 13:03:01 GMT
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG

At this moment, my port of SWI-Prolog to 386BSD is on its way to
agate.berkeley.edu. I sent it to rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de too,
which is a european site.
  I tested SWI-Prolog a bit more now, and things seem to work fine.
The stack-warning bug has not disturbed my Prolog works so far.
  The patch archive contains diff's and binaries, so you can use
Prolog without doing anything else. But I strongly recommend to get
the swi-prolog sources too, which can be found at swi.psy.uva.nl.

Enjoy
-Gunther

1 ?- runs_on(i386, bsd, X).

X=386bsd
Yes

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sys.sun
From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
Subject: Re: Planning to upgrade to Solaris 2?
Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 01:17:03 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.190440.23965@mercury.cair.du.edu> troby@diana.cair.du.edu (Thorn Roby) writes:
>In article <1992Aug19.082537.16504@xanadu.com> michael@xanadu.com (Michael McClary) writes:
>>I always thought vi was the next-to-last resort, and the last resort
>>was "ed".  Or does that date me?  B-)
>
>Actually, the last resort is "cat >".

Well, actually the last resort is 'echo "foo bar baz" > .."  Or if you're
planning ahead, put the code of shcat() as a separate script in /sbin

:-)

--Dave
-- 
System Administrator, Population Research Institute    barr@pop.psu.edu
Emacs is a fine operating system, but I still prefer UNIX. - Tom Christiansen
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sys.sun
From: troby@diana.cair.du.edu (Thorn Roby)
Subject: Re: Planning to upgrade to Solaris 2?
Organization: University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 19:04:40 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.082537.16504@xanadu.com> michael@xanadu.com (Michael McClary) writes:
>I always thought vi was the next-to-last resort, and the last resort
>was "ed".  Or does that date me?  B-)

Actually, the last resort is "cat >".


-- 

Thorn Roby                              troby@diana.cair.du.edu
CARL Systems, Inc.                               troby@carl.org   
3801 E. Florida Ave.,Suite D300,Denver, CO 80210 (303) 758-3030
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sys.sun
From: jcs@ixstar.ih.att.com (John "C". Sucilla)
Subject: Re: Planning to upgrade to Solaris 2?
Originator: news@cbnewsb.cb.att.com
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 05:13:06 GMT


"David Herron" <david@twg.com> writes:

>>>Winnah!  Winnah!
>>>
>>>Dave is _obviously_ someone who has administered 386i's before...
>>>:-)
>>
>>(Shhhh!!!!  Those things never existed, remember???)
>
>They don't?  Then what am I typing on??  Maybe it doesn't count since
>it's pretending to be an X terminal?!?
>
>(BTW, it's reasonably fast with X11R5pl17 but not as fast as my HDS FX-15
>at home...)

Ever tried running xloadimage to load a .5 mb GIF fullscreen on the
root window?  :-)

-- 
John "C". Sucilla,  AT&T Bell Laboratories  IX 1F-210  (708) 979-0599
jcs@ixstar.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sys.sun
From: hsu@pix.com (Dagwood Splits the Atom)
Subject: Re: Planning to upgrade to Solaris 2?
Organization: Pix -- The company with no adult supervision.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:59:48 GMT

In article <ezy1H4$z69@atlantis.psu.edu> barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
>In article <1992Aug25.190440.23965@mercury.cair.du.edu> troby@diana.cair.du.edu (Thorn Roby) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug19.082537.16504@xanadu.com> michael@xanadu.com (Michael McClary) writes:
>>>I always thought vi was the next-to-last resort, and the last resort
>>>was "ed".  Or does that date me?  B-)
>>
>>Actually, the last resort is "cat >".
>
>Well, actually the last resort is 'echo "foo bar baz" > .."

Winnah!  Winnah!

Dave is _obviously_ someone who has administered 386i's before...
:-)

-dave

-- 
Dave Hsu                           <hsu@pix.com> -or- <hsu@eng.umd.edu>
Caffeine and Salsa Czar	          "Yeah?  Well there are a lot of people out
Pix Technologies Corporation       there who are full of shit and making money.
Have nerds, will telnet.           And *I'm* not going to be the exception."
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sys.sun
From: "David Herron" <david@twg.com>
Subject: Re: Planning to upgrade to Solaris 2?
Sensitivity: Personal
Encoding: 23 TEXT , 4 TEXT 
Conversion: Prohibited
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
Conversion-With-Loss: Prohibited
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:40:23 GMT

>hsu@pix.com (Dagwood Splits the Atom) writes:
>>barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
>>>troby@diana.cair.du.edu (Thorn Roby) writes:
>>>>michael@xanadu.com (Michael McClary) writes:
>>>>>I always thought vi was the next-to-last resort, and the last resort
>>>>>was "ed".  Or does that date me?  B-)
>>>>
>>>>Actually, the last resort is "cat >".
>>>
>>>Well, actually the last resort is 'echo "foo bar baz" > .."
>>
>>Winnah!  Winnah!
>>
>>Dave is _obviously_ someone who has administered 386i's before...
>>:-)
>
>(Shhhh!!!!  Those things never existed, remember???)

They don't?  Then what am I typing on??  Maybe it doesn't count since
it's pretending to be an X terminal?!?

(BTW, it's reasonably fast with X11R5pl17 but not as fast as my HDS FX-15
at home...)

<- David Herron <david@twg.com> (work) <david@davids.mmdf.com> (home)
<-
<- "ISO is really just another politically correct one-world fantasy
<-  of the U.N." -- Gordon McLachlan (LAN Computing, Aug 1992, p. 37)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sys.sun
From: malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Malte Uhl)
Subject: Re: Planning to upgrade to Solaris 2?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 13:56:13 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet.

In article <1992Aug26.163809.19078@twg.com>, "David Herron" <david@twg.com> writes:
|> >hsu@pix.com (Dagwood Splits the Atom) writes:
|> >>barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
|> >>>troby@diana.cair.du.edu (Thorn Roby) writes:
|> >>>>michael@xanadu.com (Michael McClary) writes:
|> >>>>>I always thought vi was the next-to-last resort, and the last resort
|> >>>>>was "ed".  Or does that date me?  B-)
|> >>>>
|> >>>>Actually, the last resort is "cat >".
|> >>>
|> >>>Well, actually the last resort is 'echo "foo bar baz" > .."
|> >>
|> >>Winnah!  Winnah!
|> >>
|> >>Dave is _obviously_ someone who has administered 386i's before...
|> >>:-)
|> >
|> >(Shhhh!!!!  Those things never existed, remember???)
|> 
|> They don't?  Then what am I typing on??  Maybe it doesn't count since
|> it's pretending to be an X terminal?!?
|> 
|> (BTW, it's reasonably fast with X11R5pl17 but not as fast as my HDS FX-15
|> at home...)
|> 
|> <- David Herron <david@twg.com> (work) <david@davids.mmdf.com> (home)
|> <-
|> <- "ISO is really just another politically correct one-world fantasy
|> <-  of the U.N." -- Gordon McLachlan (LAN Computing, Aug 1992, p. 37)

Just to waste bandwidth again: The very last resort is
	$ exec > <filename>

Malte.
Xref: sparky comp.unix.solaris:198 comp.unix.shell:3706
From: jcs@ixstar.ih.att.com (John "C". Sucilla)
Subject: Re: Planning to upgrade to Solaris 2?
Originator: news@cbnewsb.cb.att.com
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 07:48:10 GMT

hsu@pix.com (Dagwood Splits the Atom) writes:
>barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
>>troby@diana.cair.du.edu (Thorn Roby) writes:
>>>michael@xanadu.com (Michael McClary) writes:
>>>>I always thought vi was the next-to-last resort, and the last resort
>>>>was "ed".  Or does that date me?  B-)
>>>
>>>Actually, the last resort is "cat >".
>>
>>Well, actually the last resort is 'echo "foo bar baz" > .."
>
>Winnah!  Winnah!
>
>Dave is _obviously_ someone who has administered 386i's before...
>:-)

(Shhhh!!!!  Those things never existed, remember???)

-- 
John "C". Sucilla,  AT&T Bell Laboratories  IX 1F-210  (708) 979-0599
jcs@ixstar.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.shell
From: l1ngo@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Linh Ngo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Does PHIGS exist for Ultrix?
Summary: Looking for PHIGS
Keywords: PHIGS Ultrix 4.2
Date: 31 Aug 92 21:54:40 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Denver

A user here wants to order a graphics package which requires the
PHIGS graphics library.  Does anyone know where I can pick this up?
We're running Ultrix 4.2 on several VAX/DECstation [32]100's.

While I'm here, I was wondering if anyone knew why a remote shell from
an DECstation 3100 running Ultrix 4.2 hangs unless it is put into the
background when connecting to a Sequent S81 running Dynix 3.2?

Linh Ngo
--
l1ngo@copper.denver.colorado.edu  | Computational Math Network SysAdmin
University of Colorado at Denver  |         "Searchless AI!"
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: w and ps don't agree + Typical UN*X-attitude
From: sharpe@adodem.enet.dec.com
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 14:57:27 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <TROST.92Aug20002842@romulus.reed.edu>, trost@romulus.reed.edu (Bill Trost) writes...
>In article <o3@byu.edu> gritton@alaska.et.byu.edu (Jamie Gritton) writes:
>   >> the moronic idea of naming a command
>   >> after its programmers and not finding a mnemonic to indicate its use
> 
>      I believe he was referring to awk(1). I forget who "a" and "w" are,
>   but "k" is Brian Kernighan of "K & R" fame.
> 
>Aho, Weinberg(er?), and Kernighan.
> 
>I just don't understand why "COBOL" is a more compelling name than
>"awk".   Both mean nothing to most everyone.
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>--
>Bill Trost <trost@reed.edu>   There are two types of people: those who divide
>Reed College Systems Manager  people into two types, and those who don't.

Actually, COBOL means an awful lot of job security for a large number of 
programmers out there :-)

awk(1) don't mean a lot to me these days as I have Larry Wall to thank for Perl,
and he uses interesting names for commands :-)

Regards
Richard Sharpe
These opinions be mine, Digital has its own.
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Tuesday, 1 Sep 1992 10:41:59 EDT
From: John Grover <JGROVER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Disk sizes under 4.2a

We are (finally) upgrading to 4.2a and I am trying to confirm some
rumors concerning disk sizes. It is my understanding that 4.2 will
recognize a rz57 as 1 gig and a rz58 as 1.3, but these numbers potentially
double when going to 4.2a. Is this so? And how is it done? Are there more
sectors, or more bytes per sector? BTW, this is on a DECsystem 5500.

John Grover               "On a cloud of sound I drift in the night,
Computing Center           Any place it goes is right"
University of Maine                                  -- Steppenwolf
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: matheys@online.cern.ch (Jean-Pol Matheys)
Subject: Finding a Filesystem's Minimum Free Space
Reply-To: matheys@online.cern.ch
Organization: CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:39:33 GMT


Dear All,

How can one find-out the amount of space "reserved from the normal users"
as the man page says ? By default it's 10% (set by the newfs -m default).
But how does one get "the" number from Ultrix ?

There is a way to get  a rough number using  the numbers that df and chpt
give, but that's not really what I'm after.

--
Jean-Pol Matheys

CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics
ECP Division  /  Data-acquisition Systems Group
CH-1211 Geneva 23 - Switzerland

HEP DECnet   online::matheys
Internet     matheys@online.cern.ch
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Tel          +41.22.7674719
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: tym@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au (Tim MacKenzie)
Subject: Absurd bug in /bin/login (Ultrix 4.2)
Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 02:02:17 GMT

There is a problem with /bin/login under Ultrix 4.2 with ENHANCED security
and local passwd/group/auth. (enhanced may not be necessary, but it does
_not_ break when passwd info is imported).

This is TOTALLY ABSURD... read on please.
On one machine, if the sum of the number of lines (possibly blank) in 
~/.rhosts and /etc/hosts.equiv is >= 58, and if your machine/user combination 
does not appear within the first 57 lines, rlogin will get you in, but without
groups, utmp, wtmp or motd (and goodness knows what else). [I was quite
surprised when the login actually appeared in the auditlog].

Examples: 
58 blank lines in /etc/hosts.equiv, no ~/.rhosts: breaks.
57 blank lines in /etc/hosts.equiv, no ~/.rhosts: no break.
1 blank line in hosts.equiv, 56 blank  + remote host in ~/.rhosts: break.

On another machine, the magic number was 60 (I couldn't do much checking
as I don't have root access there).
ARGGGGGHHHHHH!

Does anyone have a drop in replacement for login, etc for Ultrix4.2 with
enhanced security which is hack for hack compatible? (and possibly minus this
particular bug).

This is crazy... next thing I'll find that if you have '\0\0\0\0\n' on line
1348 of your .rhosts it will give you a root login, just you wait!
--
-Tim MacKenzie (tym@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: iversen@dsfys1.fi.uib.no (Per Steinar Iversen)
Subject: Re: routing through a DECstation 5000/125
Reply-To: iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no
Organization: Department of Physics, University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 12:17:22 GMT



Thanks for all the info received so far. I must admit though that our machine
still refuses to route anything between its interfaces. The -q option has been
removed on routed, but this made no difference. The situation is still that
not even a ping will pass through. Traceroute shows that the external machines
try to deliver through our DECstation, so presumably routed is doing its job,
the packets just dont go through. Similarly the PCs on the interior net send
their pings to the proper interface, as that is their default gateway, but no
packets are seen on the outside net. Sigh!

-psi

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From: mamros@athena.lkg.dec.com (Shawn Mamros)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Help with ln -f -s
Date: 3 Sep 92 14:07:36 GMT
Reply-To: mamros@athena.lkg.dec.com (Shawn Mamros)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


edwards@aurs01.uucp (A. J. Edwards) writes:
>When I do the following command, sometimes I get the following
>error that I don't really understand why and how it occurs.

>        ln -f -s /project/srcpool/sf601589_06d2.c ./obj/sf601589_06d2.c
>./obj/sf601589_06d2.c: File exists

I've seen this error occur whenever ./obj/sf601589_06d2.c already existed
as a "dangling" symbolic link (i.e., a symbolic link where the file it points
to doesn't exist).  It turns out to be a bug in ln (one which should be fixed
in a not-too-distant future release).  In the meantime, the only real
workaround is to "rm -f ./obj/sf601589_06d2.c" first.  (It's also the most
portable way of doing so, as some vendors' ln implementations don't allow
the use of both -f and -s together - SunOS, for one...)

-Shawn Mamros
E-mail to: mamros@athena.lkg.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (John Howells)
Subject: Re: E-Mail system recommendations needed
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr. Mtn Vw CA 94035
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 16:00:42 GMT

buck@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Jesse Buckley) writes:

<In article <2A9CF942.29269@orion.oac.uci.edu> fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian) writes:
<>I am looking for an email package for about 200 people on an Ultrix
<>system. I know of the public domain systems (MH and ELM) but we need
<>something with more features, especially since most users are
<>used to cc:Mail on MSDOS. If you know of any packages (commercial or 
<>otherwise), please let me know. 

<Take a look as MUSH, it's highly programable.  If it's not enough go and
<buy Z-mail.  I *WISH* I could but, there is the budget thing in my way.

I second that. I won't use anything else!

--
                                        John Howells
                                        howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov 
                                        howells@earth.arc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie)
Subject: Re: Anyone using a DECstation 5000/200 as a news server?
Organization: DEC Network Software Lab
Date: 29 Aug 92 11:34:49

We use a 5000/200 as the news server for most of the west coast of Digital's
internal network (west coast of the U.S.A., that is).  It performs quite nicely
even with 30 or 40 concurrent readers and a dozen full bidirectional newsfeeds.

But to be brutally honest, when we switch from Cnews/NNTP to INN, we could go
back to a 3100 and get the same level of netnews performance.  INN is *FAST*.
--
Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab	
Palo Alto, California, USA         	"Don't be a rebel, or a conformist;
<vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie		they're the same thing, anyway.  Find
<paul@vix.com>     vixie!paul		your own path, and stay on it."  -me
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: riley@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Daniel S. Riley)
Subject: Re: plot(1) and such...
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:22:16 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.122810.28326@hubcap.clemson.edu> hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor) writes:
>...only a couple seem to be available in vanilla ultrix (lvp16, dumbplot and
>crtplot). Are suitable substitutes for any/all of the others available
>anywhere you know of?

Try the Ultrix unsupported tapes (which should have come with your
Ultrix distribution kit).  Most of the ones you listed are in
'UDXBASE420', 'ULTRIX/UWS V4.2 UNSUPPORTED (RISC)'.

-- 
-Dan Riley                          Internet: dsr@lns598.tn.cornell.edu
-Wilson Lab, Cornell University     HEPNET/SPAN: lns598::dsr (44630::dsr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: pranjoto@ece.wisc.edu (Hokkie Pranjoto)
Subject: How to change diskless client IP address?
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:19:46 CDT
Originator: pranjoto@janus


We have a Decstation 5000/200 server with 3 diskless clients.  We need
to change the IP addresses of all 4 machines.  We got the server changed
with no problem.  We changed one client by deleting the client and
adding it back with dms.  After doing this we had to reconfigure all
the installed sets.  Is there an easier way to do this?  In particular,
is the IP address of the client stored some place where we can edit
it?  (We tried editing the IP addresses in both the server and client
/etc/hosts, but that did not do the job.)

Thanks.
Hokkie Pranjoto
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.lang.perl
From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
Subject: Re: 'less' as man pager
Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:46:41 GMT

In <1992Sep1.193032.29332@hou.amoco.com> jim@n5ial.chi.il.us writes:

>seems I can't cancel my own article.  oh well.....  anyways, in the news
>batch right after I posted this, came the answer.  thanks to whoever
>mentioned /usr/ucb/page --- that fixed it, just like that.

Why not just switch to the version of man re-written in Perl?
(available on ftp.uu.net).  It does everything man does on other
systems, plus it's faster than ones written in "C".  You can set
it up for various pagers, or just "setenv PAGER foo" to use "foo".

There is a paper in the first or second Usenix LISA conference
proceedings called "The Answer to all Man's Problems".  Read it,
learn it, love it.  Perl.

Tom
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