HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jeff@sporty.col.oh.us (Jeff Anderson)
Subject: Re: Using 'cu' with speeds greater than 9600
Organization: J.A. Anderson & Company, Columbus, OH US
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:09:06 GMT

In article <1g5p3uINN5up@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> brettw@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett D. Watson) writes:
> Ok, I need some help from SOMEONE who has used 'cu' to connect to
>another computer over serial cable using a Digiboard, or similar
>serial expansion board.
> [...]
>My Devices file has the following:
>
>Direct tty2a - 38400 direct
>
>  However, I cannot get the connection to run at 38400, or 19200 for
>that matter.  Is there something else, or someWHERE else I'm
>forgetting to set something?  I've had some people tell me you just
>can't run a terminal at speeds greater than 9600 but I don't buy that.
>Why the hell can't I get this to work?  I'm pulling my hair out.
>Help!

I have a Telebit T2500 running at 19.2 over a serial line.  The line is
used for dial in/out but here is the poop.  In /etc/ttys change the
'mode' byte (second byte) to point to an entry in /etc/gettydefs.  Mine
is 1ntty1A which means enabled, use gettydef entry n on tty1A.  See 'man
ttys' for details.

In gettydefs, I have entry n as:

n # EXTA  HUPCL # EXTA  CS8 SANE HUPCL TAB3 -IXANY #\r\n@ login: # n

Note that the speed is 'EXTA' this means 19200.  EXTB means 38400.

Since the line is direct, I think these two changes may be all you need.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: Boot filesystem backup/restore
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:45:21 GMT

kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) writes:

>System: SCO XENIX 3.2.3 GT

>I have been offered the brief loan of a SCSI tape drive (150 meg) so I can
>back up my root filesystem, which will let me re-install the OS and
>hopefully resolve some SCSI disk problems in the process.

>I have no experience with this, but understand that using tar for the backup
>won't archive the device drivers. What I want to do is this: back up the
>_entire_ root filesystem, re-install the OS to the point where I can restore
>from tape, restore everything from tape, over-writing existing files, and
>reboot.

>Is that possible? If so, do I use cpio for the job? What switches should I
>use?

>Any suggestions welcomed :-)

1)	unmount any extra file systems.
2)	cd /
3)	find . -print -depth | cpio -ovc -C20480 -K149000 -O/dev/rct0

If you have any extra file system I would back them up too.  Remember that you
are getting into a position to easily blow your whole disk away.  Making one or
two EXTRA backups is not a waste of time.

-- 
The Golden Gryphon 				gryphon@openage.COM
"Mad Scientists seeks mindless brawny assistants, good pay, quiet location."
"They're not ghosts,  they're metaphysically challenged." - Me
Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: paul@frcs.Alt.ZA (Paul Nash)
Subject: Re: DTC SCSI Host Adaptor Problems
Organization: Free Range Computer Systems CC
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 16:42:25 GMT

Thus spake crouland@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (DES Cracker):

> Has anyone had any luck using the DTC SCSI HOST Adaptor with SCO Unix
> 3.2.4?? I am having a hard time, the OS will not recognize it on
> install.

You have to get a driver from your local DTC dealer, then install
onto a machine with a SCO-supported adapter, install DTC's driver
and build a new kernel, use this to create a new installation
floppy and _then_ install onto your target machine.

However, don't bother.  The performance is ABBYSMAL (if not worse),
and you'll find the whole machine will die whenever there is a disk 
access.  Rather blow the extra few $$ and buy an Adaptec.  SCO support
them out the box, which makes installation a doddle, and they _fly_
compared to DTC's junk.

DTC _do_ make good MFM, RLL and ESDI controllers, though, like WD.
Like WD, their SCSI is an absolute waste of time (as I found out the
hard way :-().
 
 ---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---
 Paul Nash                                         paul@frcs.Alt.ZA
 Box 12475, Onderstepoort, 0110 South Africa         +27-12-5611879

 "Standards are great -- everyone should have one" (Kent Landfield)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: galt@seq.uncwil.edu (Jon Adams)
Subject: looking for gcc binaries for SCO UNIX
Summary: I am looking for gcc binaries for SCO UNIX 3.2.2
Keywords: gcc, UNIX
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:19:57 GMT

I am looking for gcc binaries for SCO UNIX 3.2.2
Having searched through various ftp sites, and trying random
variations with archie, I'm hoping someone will be able to
easily point to where they are for me.
Thanks

-- 
| Jon Adams            \  "The world began when I was born    |
|                       \   and the world is mine to win."    |
| galt@seq.uncwil.edu    \                 The Westerner      |
| galt@matsci1.uncwil.edu \                   Badger Clark    |
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.sysv386
From: larry@gator.use.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: CDROM under SCO Xenix
Organization: Gator Communications - Feeds-R-Us 219-289-3745 
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 14:17:43 GMT

jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder) writes:


>Has anyone gotton a CDROM to work with SCO Xenix/386, or any
>of the SYSV unixes?

I don't know about Xenix, but SCO Unix supports CDROMs in the
stock OS.  I believe ISC supports it as well.

-- 
Larry Snyder                                    internet: larry@gator.use.com
keeper of the Gator                                   uucp: uunet!gator!larry
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis)
Subject: Re: Mscreen
Organization:  SOFTWARE / DYNAMIX
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 7:16:38 EST
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(I always said I'd never do this, but I can't stop myself on this one ...)

> Anyone know the command line and syntax of how to use Mscreen. I have been having alot of problems trying to get this to work, and tired of banging my head on the desk.

Then stop banging your head on the desk and RTFM!
Chip, perhaps this should be covered in the FAQ?  (like the MSCREEN(M)
section in the manual isn't enough :-) )
Alex, crack the bindings on that nice SCO manual and find the section
MSCREEN(M) (the (M) is for the Miscellaneous commands section, it's after
the normal (C) section in the back).  This section does a pretty decent job
of covering how to use mscreen on serial terminals, including
/etc/mscreencap and .mscreenrc.  If you read that section (at *least* 3
times) and *still* can't get it working, post again (and be specific!)
and I bet you'll get more help at that time.

PS:  If you're using vi (or whatever editor you *are* using), wordwrap
doesn't appear to be turned on as your 3-liner above is void of a newline
(which makes it a pain in the ass to work with).

Good Luck!  :-)

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#          david@dynamix.com                       /  DYNAMIX          #
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis)
Subject: Re: COM ports under XENIX VP/IX
Organization:  SOFTWARE / DYNAMIX
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 10:10:12 EST
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> Does anyone have any experience with getting the COM ports (/dev/tty1a,
> /dev/tty2a) to work under Xenix VP/IX?  I'm trying to run a DOS

I've had *some* experience using serial ports under Xenix & VP/ix ...

> data acquistion application (talking to a Solus data acquisition

but not with data acquisition!  I've used standard COM ports (tty1a) as
well as ports on intelligent serial io cards for printing and dial out on a
modem ...

> Even at slow baud rates (300 baud) there seems to be a handshaking type
> problem -- I get an initial burst of about 20 or 30 bytes from the
> datalogger and then the data flow stops.  By sending multiple carriage
> returns from XENIX to the datalogger I can coax it to give me more
> characters one at a time.

I've never seen this problem before ... I generally use xon/xoff

> Thinking that there was a problem with the DOS half of the datalogger
> software, I loaded a DOS copy of MIRROR under VP/IX.  Mirror behaves
> identically -- a small burst of characters comes from the datalogger and
> then stops.  Under MIRROR I disabled hardware handshaking and flow control
> and set the baud rate to 300.

I've used all sorts of different MS-DOG software under VP/ix and never
had a problem (I know that doesn't help much) ...

> I'm using Xenix 2.3.3 and VP/IX 1.01.01.

All of the above applies to 1.02 ... but I've never heard of those problems
on 1.01

> Anyone have any experience with using the COM ports under Xenix VP/IX?
> Thanks for any help.

Not sure this was any help, but there it is ... if you have solved it
already please post the solution, if not and you would like to follow up on
it just drop me a note

Best Regards,

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#          David L. Jarvis                 SOFTWARE  /                 #
#          david@dynamix.com                       /  DYNAMIX          #
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,misc.forsale.computers,pnw.forsale,seattle.forsale,misc.forsale.computers.pc-clone
From: mpark@stein.u.washington.edu (Michael Park)
Subject: FOR SALE: SCO 3.2.2
Followup-To: poster
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: pnw
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:15:03 GMT

(I am posting this for a friend.  Contact him directly if you're interested)


FOR SALE:  SCO 3.2.2 with Development System (unlimited license)
YOU GET:   All the disks (5.25"), and all the docs
           (I haven't even sent in the registration).
$$$$$$$$:  $800 obo

This is less than a year old.  As I understand it, SCO is offering
a very nice price to upgrade to their current ODT (Open Desk Top)
package, but that price goes up in January so now is the time to buy.
Complete details available.

  azar@mccs.seaslug.org
           or
  (206) 644-6657 (day)
  (206) 329-0861 (evening and message)

-jvh
From: mpj1150@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Help "getty keeps dying erro 6"
Date: 18 Dec 92 21:28:36 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology


	getty: cannot open tty03     errno 6
        init:  /dev/tty04: getty keeps dying    there may be a problem

   My comput(SCO XENIX-386 System V) keeps flashing the above messages
   on the console terminal(a Multiscreen Terminal). The login prompt
   doesn't comeon other multiscreens of the console. 
   Other terminals of the system r working fine.

  Can somebody please let me know what is errno 6 and what is the remedial 
  action?


  I tried all the options given in the manual, for eg, resetting the
  terminal(Ctrl J stty sane Ctrl J); but of no avail.  In fact, I 
  shutdown the system and rebooted, but the problem still persists..

  Any clues ?  Your help is greatly appreciated...

  Thanx in advance...

  Milind (mpj1150@tesla.njit.edu)
From: TAMGC@CUNYVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Can't I have two floppy drives in SCO UNIX?
Date: 13 Dec 92 20:34:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: CUNYVM.92348.153414TAMGC
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

I have a DELL PC running under SCO Unix, with 31/4 and 51/2' drives.
I have always been using the 31/4' drive so far, and did not even try
the 51/2' one. But recently I have realized that,that drive is not even
defined in the kernel, and I could not find a way to install an additional
diskette drive.

Does anybody have an idea about how to do this?

Thanks..

Tamer Avcilar

(I have SCO UNIX 3.2.4)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence)
Subject: Re: Hardware support HORROR story!
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:03:37 GMT

bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
: What the hell has happened to support in this country anyway?
: 
: Has anybody else had anything like this happen to them, or we
: just unusually lucky :-(.
: 
Oh, how about breaking a motherboard while installing a multiport
card?  Breaking as in knocking chips right off?

Or installing Equinox drivers to "upgrade" a Computone board?

Or replacing a hard drive in a Unix box with a perfectly identical
drive and then going in and changing the BIOS to something that
was so incredibly different that I can't even imagine where they
got it from?

And following that by setting up DOS partitions, installing 
DOS, and complaining about the "unusable" D: drive with the
Unix partition on it!

Here's the problem, the reason, and the explanation:  there is a
limited supply of intelligence.  The number of computers needing
service has now exceeded the number of intelligent people
available.  So fools are sent to do service.



		Tony   apl@world.std.com

Lawrence & Clark, Inc		(617) 762-0707	(206) 323-2864
Xenix/Unix support,etc 	 	 Boston		 Seattle
From: josephs@msen.com (Joseph Stroup)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Tandy 6000
Date: 21 Dec 92 01:19:53 GMT
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.msen.com


 The Tandy 6000 ran Xenix. It was slow, did not run multi-user
 well. Great idea just a bit before its time. I had 3 of them.
 Now they are now worth the electrical power to play with. If
 you did not know what you could do with them before, I can't tell
 you now. Most of this stuff is old and unless you have a very specific
 job for them, they are just junk. Good luck happy holidays.
-- 
Joseph Stroup          | Still trying to work
                       | and Play well with Others.
From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Xenix/286 v2.2.3 NEWS
Date: 15 Dec 1992 21:34:23 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1992Dec09.000802.15069@uumeme.chi.il.us> rwmech@uumeme.chi.il.us (Robert W. Mech) writes:

>on a new os.  Unless you get 386BSD, but if you stay current in what you
>read, youll find out BSD has stoped its unix production all together
>after the recent AT&T scandal.  So now your looking at over 700$ over 
>$1000 if you want a compiler.

It's not a scandal, it's a lawsuit which has not yet been settled.
BSDI (the company) is still distributing its BSD/386 product.  The
University of California Berkeley is still distributing its 386BSD
package (agate.berkeley.edu).  Linux, which isn't based on any AT&T
code is totally free and available.

At one time a SysV was available with compiler for $600.  I don't know
if that's still true.
--
<-:(= Anthony Stieber	anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu   uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony
From: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Hardware support HORROR story!
Date: 20 Dec 92 21:25:35 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
: In article <506@comix.UUCP> jeffl@comix.UUCP (Jeff Liebermann) writes:
: 
: >The problem is that the average support personality has never
: >destroyed enough hardware or had the opertunity to waste huge
: >amounts of time on trivia, to be considered experienced.  There
: >is simply no opertunity.  One must truely "Learn by Destroying".
: 
: But the problem I am seeing is that mistakes are made, and the
: people making them never realize the consequence.  Their
: employer eats the bill and then never learn.    If they were
: docked a few hours pay - not neccesarily the whole amount of
: the 'make good', they would be more careful and double check.
: 
: Part of the process of learning is by making mistakes.  And no
: amount of warning about something is going to teach you unless
: you do it.

Yeah, but... part of being intelligent is knowing what you don't
know.  It's the boneheads who think they know what they are doing
that cause the most damage.  Was it Will Rogers who said something 
like "It ain't what we know that hurts us, but it's what we think we 
know but don't" ? Something like that.

The guy that "upgraded" a Computone board with Equinox drivers
was just plain stupid.  It wasn't a careless act, it wasn't a 
momentary lapse of common sense, it was plain vanilla empty between
the ears dumb!  Not dumb because he had no clue as to why that
is really silly, but dumb because he didn't realize that he
was totally out of his depth and had no business with his fingers
anywhere near that keyboard.

The tech who installed DOS and couldn't understand the Unix partition
on the D: drive was ignorant, but that by itself is no sin.  Where
he earned my absolute contempt was by his attitude: an intelligent
person would say "Whoops. Something here I don't understand.  There's
this 'Unix' partition, and I don't grok it, so I better try to find 
somebody who does."  A dumb piece of stimulus-response sub-human
meat gets pissed and starts complaining about how somebody else 
has "messed up" the machine with a non-dos partition.

Ignorance is a changeable state.  True stupidity persists even when
the ignorance is gone.


		Tony   apl@world.std.com

Lawrence & Clark, Inc		(617) 762-0707	(206) 323-2864
Xenix/Unix support,etc 	 	 Boston		 Seattle
       Kevin Clark is embarrassed by most of what I say.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: corwin@eskimo.com (Don Glover)
Subject: Re: Hardware support HORROR story!
Organization: >>> Eskimo North (206)-FOR-EVER <<<
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 20:53:17 GMT


They are IBM, they don't care, they don't have to.
NOT!
Xref: sparky comp.unix.xenix.sco:3489 biz.sco.general:4618
From: kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: Revisited: Anomaly
Date: 13 Dec 92 15:08:36 GMT
Organization: Small Business Systems, Incorporated, Smithfield, RI 02917

michael@yonder.UUCP (Michael E. Haws) writes:

>I too have had zero luck trying anonymous ftp to anomaly over the past few
>days, trying all hours of the day.  My internet connection gets me to any
>other site with no problems, but not so with anomaly.  Perhaps anomaly
>is an appropriate name :-).

Anomaly lost its Internet connection due to the snow storm we're experiencing
here in the Northeast. However, the system is once again online and servicing
archive requests.

MD
-- 
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--  Domain: mpd@anomaly.sbs.com            /  parents never had it, chances 
-- AT&TNet: +1 401 273 4669               /   are you won't either...
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From: vancleef@netcom.com (Henry van Cleef)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Can't I have two floppy drives in SCO UNIX?
Date: 13 Dec 92 23:38:11 GMT
Organization: Netcom--posted from Andover, Mass.

In article <92348.153414TAMGC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <TAMGC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>I have a DELL PC running under SCO Unix, with 31/4 and 51/2' drives.
>I have always been using the 31/4' drive so far, and did not even try
>the 51/2' one. But recently I have realized that,that drive is not even
>defined in the kernel, and I could not find a way to install an additional
>diskette drive.
>
While this question was asked about Unix in the Xenix newsgroup, the
answer applies to both systems.  
You should have /dev/ block and character special files for fd196ds15
and rfd196ds15 for a 5-1/4 floppy installed as a "second" drive (drive
1).  Also, files for 360K and other formats.  /dev/install1 reads the
format of a preformatted disk and adjusts to what it finds.  If you do
not have these files, man HW fd shows the floppy driver layout with
major and minor device numbers---use mknod to create them if you do not
have them.

These should have been created when you installed the system.  The
drivers are defined in the kernel, if you are missing anything it is the
/dev/ special file nodes.
-- 
Hank van Cleef  vancleef@netcom.com vancleef@tmn.com  Andover, Mass.
Unix systems consultant---kernel, device drivers, networking, X11
SysV, BSD, Sun, Ultrix, AIX, SCO. Porting a specialty. 
	     The Union Institute  History of Science
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: wendt@CS.ColoState.EDU (alan l wendt)
Subject: Re: C Development System
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:19:02 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department

In article <1992Dec17.202901.7029@gw.wmich.edu> 91arble@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>Does anyone know where I can get the C development system
>for a good price?  Apparently SCO only lets "authorized" dealer
>sell there stuff and there is considerable mark up.
>
>The cheapest I've found is $965, and the most expensive is $1300.
>
>Brendan Arble                                        arble@sol.cs.wmich.edu
>

Have a look at linux.  It's free and is supposed to run POSIX binaries.  
Plus you don't have to deal with SCO support.  The last time I called
them I waited on hold for 20 minutes to get an "appointment" to talk
to a maintainer, three days hence.  Then when that person calls and you're
in a meeting, it's back to square one.   I would rather convert all
of our systems than deal with them once more, even if they were free. 

Alan Wendt

Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco