HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ccvj@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Vicki Jordan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: tape read errors can I recover?
Summary: tar errors
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:13:40 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
Originator: ccvj@luxor.latrobe.edu.au


Does anyone know if I can recover from the following tape reading errors?
Situation - a researcher has had some data sent out from China on a cartridge
tape which says "use tar xvf to extract".  We have a SGI machine with
such a drive so I tried to read it.  I tried to dd the whole tape and 
tar -x the result and got the same errors.

If this is not recoverable (and I guess not) what would have caused the 
errors: damaged tape? (at source or in transit?) system incompatabilities?
Since the person in question has to work on this data and has to now
bide his time  waiting for a replacement I want to minimise the possibility 
of having problems with a replacement tape.

Thanks...

Vicki Jordan
-------------------
iris2 # tar xvf /dev/tape
tar: Directory checksum error.
iris2 # dd if=/dev/tape conv=swab | tar tef -
330121.89h
tar: Directory checksum error.  Continuing..........................................................OK
330121.89p
tar: Directory checksum error.  Continuing..OK
330121.90h
tar: Directory checksum error.  Continuing..........................................................OK

All of the files have readable data interspersed with garbage followed by
readable data; eg:

9061273203007  2  2 38  1  1  2 11  0
9061273203007  3  1 15  9  4 . ^[.^B.^S;^N-0
7^K^R^G^F^G^V^Z ... about 20 lines of garbage
^S^S^V^G^_^F^S^Q^U  1 41 0
9061273203007  3  1 14  9  4  1 41  0
9061273203007  3  2  9  9  4  1 41  0
From: jtillema@lpl.arizona.edu (John Tillema)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Fixing Corrupted Tar files?
Keywords: tar,corrupt
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:59:48 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group

Is there any way to do this? (fix corrupted tar files?)  Are
there any utilties that will do this?

Thanks,
John
jtillema@panda.lpl.arizona.edu
jtillema@lpl.arizona.edu
From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: FTP source available?
Date: 24 Aug 92 03:30:18 GMT
Organization: umunk (private)
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

adams@pdv2.fmr.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de (Adams) writes:
: In article <DNukPB1w164w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> wayned.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu writes:
: 
: >   I recently bought Coherent and FTP isn't included.  Does anybody know 
: >   where I can get the source for FTP so I can port it?
: 
: BSD-Net2 distribution, or BSD386, from you next ftp/mail/list-server,
: but you should alread TCP/IP supported by your kernel. Sockets would
: simplify port tremendously ;->
: 
: You might try to port KA9Q, which does not need Internet support inside
: kernel.

You should follow the discussions in comp.os.coherent about FTP and sockets
for Coherent. There is also a mailing list for this stuff, send a mail to
alm@netcom.com to subscribe. One member of the mailing list is just
porting KA9Q and last week he says that slip is running.
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From: hongman@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Guo Hongman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: logout message
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:30:36 GMT


 Can anyone tell how to display some message when I logout?
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: werner@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Werner michael)
Subject: Re: NFS security flawed (was: Re: chown : HELP!)
Reply-To: werner@dirac.physics.uq.edu.au
Organization: Department of Physics, University of Queensland
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 02:23:50 GMT

A tcp wrapper can help to narrow down any rpc calls to designated
netgroups and/or particular machines.  

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: mgj@franklin.ee.umr.edu (Mahesh Govind Joshi)
Subject: How do I find out if a user is refusing messages ?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:37:00 GMT
Reply-To: mgj@ee.umr.edu (Mahesh Govind Joshi)
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Originator: mgj@ee.umr.edu

Hi,

I dont know if this is the right newsgroup to ask this question
but I will go ahead anyway.

How do I find out if a person is refusing messages (mesg n) at 
a remote site through a 'C' program ?
( This includes checking if he is logged on !!).

At present, I am doing this in a crude fashion. I dont know if
a better method exists.

argv[2]	node_name (eg. ee.umr.edu)
argv[1] username (eg. mgj)


I do a system(" finger @argv[2] | grep argv[1] > /tmp/file ")

I do a fgets(buf,35,file_pointer_to_/tmp/file).
	If fgets  returns a  NULL, person is not logged on.
	else
		 check for the occurrence of '*' in this file
		
		if index(buf,'*') != NULL
		 person is logged on but refusing messages
		else
		  person is logged.

This is very crude I beleive, but it works very well !

Suggestions  are welcome !!


Thanks in advance!!

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: How to delete link when target is rm'd?
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:09:31 GMT
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting
Keywords: link target rm

lux@sol.UVic.CA (Michael O'Henly) writes:
>	...to which I create a symbolic link in the parent directory
>using the command, "ln ~/dir1/dir2/file ~/dir1/file".

That doesn't create a symbolic link but rather a hard link.  I assume this
was a typo and you meant to include the -s option.

>	What I want is to be able to "rm ~/dir1/dir2/file" and have
>the link rm'd at the same time. 
>
>	This seems to me to be the way things should work by default.
>After all, the thing that the link points to no longer exists so why
>is the link not automatically rm'd with the target?

I hope not.  I use symbolic links even when hard links would work precisely
because of this behaviour.  With hard links it is sometimes difficult to
manipulate files and keep the links referencing each other.  By having a
symbolic link I can remove the underlying file, replace it and the link
still exists and refers to the new file.  With hard links the link still
references the old file.

Also what happens when you unmount a local or remote drive with files
pointed to by symbolic links?  By your reasoning the link should disappear
when the drive is unmounted.  Since this happens every time you shut down
then you would have to recreate those links on every bootup.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd
From: htodd@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Helen Todd)
Subject: How do I compile the BSD Telnet by itself?
Followup-To: sender
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:12:00 GMT

Something I am working on necessitates a very stripped-down version of
Telnet.  So, I got a copy of the telnet source from the free bsd-source,
and was planning on making modifications.  The problem is, how does one
re-make/re-compile it, if you are not making the whole distribution?
I read the readme's which indicate the Makefiles are in an odd format, 
but having little knowledge of makefiles, I don't know how to go about
just compiling it by itself.  If anyone could help me with this, I'd
much appreciate it..

Thanks
-Helen Todd
htodd@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
htodd@trwacs.fp.trw.com
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: snk@fork.bae.bellcore.com (Samuel Kamens)
Subject: Re: need script to rename uppercase filenames
Keywords: script,tar,msdos
Reply-To: snk@bae.bellcore.com
Organization: Bell Communications Research
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 13:50:42 GMT

In article <699@svcs1.UUCP>, slix@svcs1.UUCP (Bill Miller) writes:
> Hi, everyone.
> 
> I'm fairly new to unix, and I need a script or procedure to do the following:
>  
> I have some source code in DOS (many separate files) that I tarred under
> DOS and untarred under 386BSD.  The big problem is that all the files
> came through in UPPERCASE and I need a script to mv (rename) them all
> to lowercase quickly.
>  
> Since they're in DOS text format, I realize I also need to strip the 
> extra carriage returns on each line.  I've been successful in doing this
> with:
>  
>   cat (file) | tr -d '\015' > (newfile)
>  
> It would be nice to combine both of these so that I could rename the
> files to uppercase and strip the extra newlines all in one fell swoop
> instead of doing it one file at a time.
> 


Try this:

-------------------- CUT HERE ----------------------
#!/bin/ksh
# Script to rename a list of files to its lowercase equivalent while 
# stripping extra carriage returns
#

USAGE: $0 FILE1 FILE2 FILE3 ...

for i in $*
do
    lowfile=`echo $i | tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
    
    cat ${i} | tr -d '\015' > ${lowfile}
    # you could do rm $i here if you want
done
-------------------- CUT HERE ----------------------

You could also do this with a one-liner:

    cat $1 | tr -d '\015' > `echo $1 | tr [A-Z] [a-z]`

Sam

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From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: sh, tcsh, and alias differences
Date: 30 Aug 92 19:35:25 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: djbpitt@unixd2.cis.pitt.edu

For odd reasons apparently related to AFS mounts, the purge utility
(part of the athena safe delete suite, available as athena-rm.tar-z
from your favorite archive) won't execute purge correctly on my sys-
tem (purge permanently removes files that were deleted using the safe
delete). Expunge, a related utility, takes assorted options and can
be made to act like purge and to do what I want on my system. I run
under tcsh and my purge script, replacing the internal purge, looks 
like:

	#!/bin/sh
	expunge -r -i -l -s -y -m -v \* 2> /dev/null

Now ... how do I do this in tcsh? The following works as an alias:

	"( expunge -r -i -l -s -y -m -v \* > /dev/tty ) > & /dev/null"

but when I try it as a shell script I get a "not found" message. I've
tried different types of quotes and escapes - to no avail. Some varia-
tions object to the ampersand; others to /dev/null. Yes, the script is
executable, yes, it's in my path, yes, I removed the original purge from
my bin, and yes, I rehashed.

I realize the short answer to my question is "you do this in tcsh
exactly the way you did; you invoke sh and don't muck around." But to 
satisfy my 'satiable curiosity, why doesn't my tcsh script work, even 
while the alias and sh scripts do?

Thanks,

David

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi
From: wagner@utoday.com (Mitch Wagner)
Subject: net.views---USL/BSDI lawsuit---a bonehead error---PLEASE READ!
Organization: Open Systems Today
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 18:03:36 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.questions

Due to a stupid user error on my part, I've accidently deleted the
responses I've received to the net.views question about the USL/BSDI
lawsuit.

If you sent me a response to the question, please re-send it.

If you haven't responded yet, but have been meaning to, here's your
chance to get it in.

Feel free to include whatever flames you like about bonehead
journalists who fail to maintain a responsible policy of backing up
their important data---heaven knows I've been beating myself up about
this.

As a reminder, the original net.views request follows:

     Unix Systems Laboratories recently sued software company BSDI and the
     Regents of the University of California at Berkeley, charging that BSDI's
     commercial Unix workalike and UCB's free software violated USL's
     intellectual property rights. Was USL justified in filing the suit?

This question is being posted to gather responses for a regular
opinion column in OPEN SYSTEMS TODAY called "net.views."

By sending an E-mail reply to the above question, you are
granting permission for us to publish your response. A compilation of the
responses to this post will be posted here about two weeks from today.

Please include in your response your name, your employer or
university, your job title or class standing (that is to say, if you
identify yourself as a student, are you a freshman, sophomore, junior
senior, graduate student?), and a telephone number where you 
can be reached during the daytime (overseas readers note: that's daytime in 
North America).

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From: slix@svcs1.UUCP (Bill Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: need script to rename uppercase filenames
Keywords: script,tar,msdos
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:26:57 GMT
Organization: Silicon Valley Computer Society, Sunnyvale, CA

Hi, everyone.

I'm fairly new to unix, and I need a script or procedure to do the following:
 
I have some source code in DOS (many separate files) that I tarred under
DOS and untarred under 386BSD.  The big problem is that all the files
came through in UPPERCASE and I need a script to mv (rename) them all
to lowercase quickly.
 
Since they're in DOS text format, I realize I also need to strip the 
extra carriage returns on each line.  I've been successful in doing this
with:
 
  cat (file) | tr -d '\015' > (newfile)
 
It would be nice to combine both of these so that I could rename the
files to uppercase and strip the extra newlines all in one fell swoop
instead of doing it one file at a time.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: tparker@music.scd.ucar.edu (Tom Parker)
Subject: Re: Dear vi guru,
Organization: Scientific Computing Divison/NCAR Boulder, CO
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:33:30 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.224136.24163@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> schieb@shark.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brian D. Schieber) writes:
>Dear vi guru,
> 
> I like to use tabs alot in just about every session of vi I
>work with, It would be great if I had a macro or whatever that
>could replace the tabs with the appropriate number of spaces
>in a file WHILE in vi. Do you have such a macro?

Check if your system has the 'expand' command.  This command converts
tabs to spaces, and vice versa.

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From: wikjankj@nki.no (WIK JAN KJETIL 3P)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: INFO-UNIX Digest V15#132
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:55:44 GMT

UNSUBSCRIBE wikjankj@gaya.nki.no
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd
From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: What Unix HW/SW I will buy with my $8000
Organization: Weber State University  (Ogden, UT)
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 20:07:21 GMT

In article <sec1t4O00VolI4IElI@andrew.cmu.edu> sm86+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stefan Monnier) writes:
>Why get a 1.2GB HD and a 2.3GB tape with only 8MB ram ?

Swap? }8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
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From: tparker@music.scd.ucar.edu (Tom Parker)
Subject: Re: Postscript files
Organization: Scientific Computing Divison/NCAR Boulder, CO
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:16:49 GMT

In article <66988@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7237a@prism.gatech.EDU (Matt Le Blanc) writes:
>Is there any UNIX command that will convert a postscript file to
>a normal text file?  I would like to preview the postscript files
>before printing them.  Thanks for any replies.
>						Matt Le Blanc


We use a nice, free-ware command called 'ghostscript' that previews ps files.

Don't know where we got it, but you could probably find it in archie (the
catalog of files at anonymous ftp sites).


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From: blackman@acsu.buffalo.edu (Cancholech)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: SPSS for unix, does it exist??
Date: 25 Aug 92 18:42:24 GMT
Organization: Miskatonic University Graduate Program
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 Project: Raising R'yleh
 Where: Lost in Cyberspace
 Quote: Reality is the Product of Our Mutual Imaginations
 Philosophy: Life is just one Conception after Another.



Does anyone know if SPSS the stats program for PC's and VAX is
available for Unix systems?


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Aye, to recognise my mouth says things that aren't so wise.."
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From: geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: Packet and Window Size.
Date: 29 Aug 92 01:41:29 GMT
Organization: Izot's Swamp

kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann) writes:

> I tried adb and fst patches to change the pkttime and size of the windows on
> UUCICO under SCO without any luck. I get a symbol not found error. I did
> a strings on the file and I see the window and pktime there. But for some
> reason it doesn't let me change it. Any ideas on this would be appreciated.

   YES!  We had the same problem on xenitec.  Seeing that the symbols started 
with an underscore, I guessed that UNIX was now compiled with an ANSI 
compliant C compiler, so symbols with an underscore are now strictly verboten.  
Try the scripts again without the underscore!

   BTW, apparently you can up the packet size to 7 without affecting Telebit's 
UUCP-g spoofing (it simply forces the window down to three when it steps in, 
but doesn't affect non-spoofed connections), but the same doesn't seem to be 
the case with packet size.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: hamilton@vine.cp10.es.xerox.com (Bruce A. Hamilton)
Subject: How do I clear a "phantom" pty?
Organization: Xerox Corp., El Segundo, CA, USA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:48:48 GMT

SS2, SunOS 4.1.1b.  "w" show a user logged on for several days,
but there are no processes owned by that user.  How do I
clear the pty, short of rebooting?  Somebody suggested I'd have
to muck with /etc/utmp, but I have no utilities to do that.

Thanks,
-- 
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BHamilton.LAX1B@Xerox.COM
310/333-3538
From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: I want a program that prints out base gid's of any user
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:30:28 GMT
Organization: NetLabs, Inc.

In article <BtIqyp.F5A@news.cso.uiuc.edu> bzg52408@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) writes:
: 
:    I have been trying to write a program that prints out the
: base gid of a user (given on the command line).  I have tried
: using awk and perl, but I can not get anything decent.
: Can show me how to do this.  One thing I have tried
: [ gid username ]
: #! /usr/bin/awk -f
: BEGIN { FS=":"; FILENAME="/etc/passwd" }
: ARGV[1] == $1 {print $4}
: 
: I am not sure if 1 if right for ARGV, but whatever...anyway, it 
: won't read from /etc/passwd - it only reads from stdin.  I can;t
: make it do otherwise.

You can't make a sow's purse out of a silk ear.  Or something like that... :-)

: I don't really understand perl...

You don't have to Understand Perl(TM).  You only have to know enough
of it to get the job done.

The way to do this in Perl is to use the standard system routine for it:

    #!/usr/bin/perl -l
    print((getpwnam($ARGV[0]))[3], "\n");

or, more readably,

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    ($login,$passwd,$uid,$gid) = getpwnam($ARGV[0]);
    print "$gid\n";

This will even work on YP systems, er, that is, NIS system.

Now, if you *wanted* to parse /etc/passwd yourself in Perl, you'd probably
do it something like this:

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    open(PASSWD, "/etc/passwd") || die "Can't open /etc/passwd: $!\n";
    while (<PASSWD)) {
	($login, $passwd, $uid, $gid, $gcos, $home, $shell) = split(/:/);
	print "$gid\n" if $login eq $ARGV[0];
    }

But ordinarily you should use the provided system calls.  It's probably
a mistake in the original design of Unix that system calls and shells were
kept so far apart from each other...

Have you ever read The Origin of Perl in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Unix?

:-)

Larry Wall
lwall@netlabs.com
From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A question on ls
Date: 30 Aug 92 15:46:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: mccc.1992Aug30.154653.27976
Distribution: na
Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One

In article <6786@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> naren@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Naren Bala) writes:
=Hi,
=I had a question.
=
=If I type
=% ls *.Z 
=All files with .Z extension are displayed.
=
=What command would I type to display all files that do not have a .Z 
=extension ?

ls *[!.][!Z]
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: alex@meadow.uucp (Alex Dumitru)
Subject: Re: Need all the details to convert a PC to a UNIX box/X terminal
Reply-To: alex@meadow.UUCP (Alex Dumitru)
Organization: Amdahl Canada Ltd., Software Development Center
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 19:33:45 GMT

>	I am looking for the info to convert my 486/33 PC into a unix box and
>the possibility/feasibility of its being used as X terminal...

[stuff deleted]

>Can I run X based programs on PC?

Why go to the trouble (and expense) of setting up a unix box? If all you
want to do is run X stuff on the PC look at Desqview/X from Quarterdeck.

Regards
Alex
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Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C)
Date: Wednesday, 2 Sep 1992 17:58:45 CET
From: Karl Keyte <KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: 'at' jobs - getting rid of mail


How do I submit an 'at' job so I don't get any mail back?  The
documentation says that the output of the job will be mailed unless
I redirect it elsewhere.  For example,

demo.atfile contains:

(mycommand &) >/dev/null


and I can do a:

at now + 1 min demo.atfile


But I still get a mail back.  How do I stop this mail?

Please answer directly to me if you can - thanks.

Karl
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions