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From: wonga@steam.chem.su.oz.au (Adrian Wong)
Subject: Curses' keypad & NLS
Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Sydney
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 00:08:32 GMT

Curses' getch() will return different key-codes depending on whether
it has been compiled with or without NLS. Just for the sake of consistency 
and portability which option should I support? Dynamically switching 
between the two is difficult given it all depends on the values of
macros....

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From: PHD985W@SMSVMA.bitnet ("Patrick H. Day, Systems Programmer")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: tacacs and daemons
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:06:51 GMT
Organization: SOUTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY

We have an IBM RISC 6000/560 running AIX 3.2.

1.  When attempting to install tacacs (an extended accounting and auditing
    program from Cisco Systems) the make fails because it cannot locate the
    /lib/libresolv.a file.  If you have installed tacacs or can help, please
    contact me.

2.  We have 6 ISN (AT&T Intelligent Switching Network) ports coming in to
    the 560.  I would like to have a daemon sit and watch /dev/tty7 and log
    any data that comes over that port.  How to do that is my question.

3.  Is there a way to attach to another persons process and view what they
    are doing?  Kind of a "watch" or "spy" program.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jwang@white.toronto.edu (Jingwen Wang)
Subject: UPS on AIX
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 9 Oct 92 23:37:01 GMT


    I have been using UPS as debugging tool on both SUN and Ultrix. Now
I switched to AIX. I couldn't find UPS for AIX. Instead, there is a xde
debugging tool, which is much worse and inconvenient to use. For instance,
if you start to run the program, you cannot stop it to see where it is
running.

   Does anyone know of a better debuging tool running on AIX? Or UPS
running on AIX?

Thanks.

jwang

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From: danson@lgc.com (Doug Anson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: vmker structure in AIX 3.2?
Keywords: AIX RS6000
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:21:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: lgc.1992Oct7.162146.26822
Organization: LandMark Graphics Corporation LGC

Hi:

Does anyone know where/how the vmker structure is defined in an AIX 3.2
kernel? I have an application that needs to get the size of memory from
the kernel. My application is basically a pstat -T implimentation that
gives output information similar to pstat -T on a SUN. I am also at a loss
as to where to find the current inode limit (user) in a 3.2 kernel as well.

Any help, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Doug

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From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: RS/6000 manuals ( was: AIX assembly language)
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:43:41 GMT
Reply-To: woan@cactus.org
Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks

In article <1992Oct7.125642.12095@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> paw@coos.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson) writes:
>Which would be fine *if* you could "prettyprint" the man pages, but
>alas! - they just come out in icky courier font, with all typesetting
>destroyed. :-(

The info with AIX 3.2 allows for some pretty printing by extraction in
troff format and running something like psroff on it. It still doesn't
come out as nice as native man troff pages, but it is better than all
courier and no boldface.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: dedourek@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (John DeDourek)
Subject: Meaning of subnetsarelocal?
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:38:40 GMT

In AIX 3.2 the "no" command can be used to query and/or set an 
option named "subnetsarelocal."  Info explorer, under the "no"
command says:  "subnetsarelocal    Determines if a packet address
is on the local network.  Use this option is used by [sic] the
in_localaddress subroutine.  If the value is 1, then addresses
that match the local network mask are local.  If the value is 0,
only addresses matching the local subnetwork are local.  The
default value is 1."

Could someone explain the meaning of this statement?

Info explorer searches on "subnetsarelocal" and on "in_localaddress"
yielded only the above paragraph from the "no" command description.

Thanks.

John DeDourek
dedourek@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
From: drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX and 3270
Date: 7 Oct 92 06:42:41 GMT
Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center

In article <92279.123136HARVEY@wuvmd.wustl.edu> HARVEY@WUVMD.Wustl.Edu (Bill Harvey) writes:
>No, but that brings up another question:  Where does that tn3270 that I
>can run under AIX come from?  Is that part of the AIX base OS?  A
>separate feature?  Is it provided by IBM at all?

Yes, /usr/ucb/tn3270 is supplied with AIX.  There's a much better one
that's X-aware that's available from IBM as a separate (extra charge)
product.

>In other words (I'm running out of ways to rephrase this question :-),
>when the TELNET client for VM (for example) tries to connect to a remote
>telnet server under AIX (in this case), the VM client will try to
>negotiate to send 3270 datastreams to the AIX server.  Will the AIX
>server accept or reject that negotiation?  Will the VM client be allowed
>to use transparent mode?  Or be forced to use linemode?

Linemode.


Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
Internet:  drake@almaden.ibm.com    BITNET:  DRAKE at ALMADEN
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: infotech@access.digex.com (Dr Sanjay Ranade)
Subject: UNITREE - Hierarchical Storage and File Management Software
Keywords: mass storage, file servers, hierarchical storage
Organization: Infotech SA Inc, Silver Spring, MD
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:01:49 GMT

The following paper :

"The Current Status of UniTree on Multiple Platforms and Possible
Future Directions"

presented at the First UniTree User Group meeting in Baltimore, MD
on September 17th, 1992 is available to anyone interested. It explains
UniTree status on RS/6000, SGI, Sun, Convex, Cray (S-MP), Amdahl ..
machines and discusses how UniTree is being used for storage 
management in major installations.

E-mail or fax requests to infotech@digex.com or fax : 301-989-2290.
Please use following format for e-mail requests :
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UniTree Paper
Name
Org
Address
Tel : 
Fax :
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: lottey@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (lottey)
Subject: AIX 3.2 GL crashes on this
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:01:08 GMT

I have a small GL program that compiles and runs on SGI IRIX 4.0.5 and AIX
3.1.  Under AIX 3.2, however, this program compiles but does not run.  It
gets a segmentation fault.  Has the defraster command changed under AIX 3.2?
Please respond to:    gil@actech.com
I am just borrowing this account for purposes of posting this message.

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#include <gl/gl.h>
#include <gl/device.h>

unsigned short raster1[] = {
  /* cross: */    0x0400, 0x0400, 0x0400, 0x0400, 0x0400, 0xFFE0,
                  0x0400, 0x0400, 0x0400, 0x0400, 0x0400,
 };
unsigned short raster2[] = {
  /* star: */     0x0400, 0x4440, 0x2480, 0x1500, 0x0E00, 0xFFE0,
                  0x0E00, 0x1500, 0x2480, 0x4440, 0x0400,
 };
unsigned short raster4[] = {
  /* diamond: */  0x0400, 0x0A00, 0x1100, 0x2080, 0x4040, 0x8020,
                  0x4040, 0x2080, 0x1100, 0x0A00, 0x0400,
 };
unsigned short raster5[] = {
  /* triangle: */ 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x7FC0, 0x4040, 0x2080, 0x2080,
                  0x1100, 0x1100, 0x0A00, 0x0A00, 0x0400,
 };
unsigned short raster6[] = {
  /* box: */      0xFFE0, 0x8020, 0x8020, 0x8020, 0x8020, 0x8020,
                  0x8020, 0x8020, 0x8020, 0x8020, 0xFFE0,
 };
unsigned short raster7[] = {
  /* dot: */      0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0E00, 0x0E00,
                  0x0E00, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
 };


main()
{
  Fontchar char_elems[2];

  char_elems[0].offset = 0;
  char_elems[0].w = char_elems[0].h = 0;
  char_elems[0].xoff = char_elems[0].yoff = 0;
  char_elems[0].width = 0;

  char_elems[1].offset = 0;
  char_elems[1].w = char_elems[1].h = 11;
  char_elems[1].xoff = char_elems[1].yoff = -5;
  char_elems[1].width = 0;

  defrasterfont(1,11,2,char_elems,(short)(sizeof(raster1)),raster1);
  defrasterfont(2,11,2,char_elems,(short)(sizeof(raster2)),raster2);
  defrasterfont(3,11,2,char_elems,(short)(sizeof(raster3)),raster3);
  defrasterfont(4,11,2,char_elems,(short)(sizeof(raster4)),raster4);
  defrasterfont(5,11,2,char_elems,(short)(sizeof(raster5)),raster5);
  defrasterfont(6,11,2,char_elems,(short)(sizeof(raster6)),raster6);
  defrasterfont(7,11,2,char_elems,(short)(sizeof(raster7)),raster7);

} /* pmarker_setup <<< */
From: hennie@nuustak.csir.co.za (Hennie Rautenbach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: timeout for ftp command
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:10:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: nuustak.hennie.18.0
Organization: CSIR Information Services

In article <BvpnFD.Atu@fiu.edu> richard@serss0 (Richard A Simm) writes:


>At work, we have a Novell network which takes care of most printing.
>If a file is to be printed from the RS/6000, it is ftp'ed to Novell
>and Novell's NPRINT command is used to direct output to the appropriate
>printer. We not have everything set up to run under windows with two
>dos sessions open (one session is the Clarkson package, the other session
>runs a DOS batch file).

Have you investigted the possibility of implementing something like 
"Charon" ? You define all your remote printer queues on "Charon" which on 
its turn address your Novell printer queues. "Ftp'ing the files sounds a bit 
like an overkill to me.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu (Dwight D. Moore)
Subject: Re:    Tape drives for RS/6000
Originator: news@kittyhawk.ecn.uoknor.edu
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:52:19 GMT
Reply-To: dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu
Organization: Geosciences Computing Network, Univ. of Oklahoma

In article <92287.155219MACKINNO@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>, James MacKinnon
<MACKINNO@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:

|>3. Most respondents had no strong preferences between 4mm (DAT) and 8mm
|>(Exabyte) drives.  Both offer good capacity and speed and relatively low
|>tape costs.  If you are willing to use consumer-grade tape, 8mm has the
|>edge in tape costs.  One respondent said that 4mm is more reliable, and
|>would definitely be his choice.  You can append to both formats.

Speed, ...I wish, I can't wait till the data transfer on these increase to a
reasonable
data through-put rate...sigh...4 hrs to dump a  (2.3 Gb) tape is SLOWWWW....

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Geosciences Computing Network
University of Oklahoma

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: "harry tempelman" <harry.tempelman@canrem.com>
Subject: gto i-2 hardware option
Reply-To: "harry tempelman" <harry.tempelman@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 9 Oct 92 21:32:42 EST

Can anyone enlighten me on the following topic.

GTO - High Resolution Colour Graphics Device.
      The hardware option in question on this device is called
      I-2 & the purpose is to enhance the graphics performance.

3 Questions:

- Does release #21 (JUN/93) of PGDS support this I-2 hardware option?

- As far as new GTO boards, will it include the I-2 option?

- If installed, can CATIA use this I-2 hardware option or will it
  interfere with CATIA's graphics?

Any response is appreciated.....

Harry Tempelman
APEX METALS INC.

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From: boone@convex.cl.msu.edu (Dennis Boone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Network disease
Date: 15 Oct 92 20:00:44 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University, East Lansing

I manage a 6000/520 running AIX 3.2.0 connected to the local ethernet.

I noticed when I first started working with this system that some kinds
of network activity are not quite as quick on a 6000 as on some other
systems.  It sometimes takes a second or two longer to set up an inbound
telnet/rlogin session than, say, some Suns around here.

Late last week the delays got really annoying.  Instead of taking an extra
second or two, it became an extra 5, 10 or worse.  Outbound connections of
various sorts are suffering too, as is keystroke echo while logged in.  In
fact, a couple of times a day the lag will be 20-30 seconds.  It's not 
every keystroke or every connection setup, but it does occur fairly often.

The machine is largely idle.  Our network guru says the network load is 
not particularly high or unusual for our environment.

Any hints cheerfully accepted.  I'd love to have my nose rubbed in how I
would go about using any appropriate debugging tools to study the problem.

Dennis
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu ( Hari Seldon ... psychohistorian )
Subject: Re: Ethernet/TCP/IP Config
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 04:14:29 GMT

In <1992Oct1.164608.1622@novell.com> mcollins@db.novell.com (Marty Collins) writes:

>iain@ee.ryerson.ca (Iain Campbell) writes:
>: Pardon a novice AIX sysadmin, but,
>: 
>: I am trying to get an RS6000 model 220 up on a Sun net.  Trouble is
>: I can't get the ethernet port/TCP/IP to work.  I have tried setting the
>: port up both from smit and by editing the rc scripts.  

>I would suggest using smit at most times over hacking on the rc script, at
>least with AIX.

amen. you can *not* trust the contents of *any* of the normal files.
aix ignores them. it uses the odm for configuration.

bill pociengel
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From: paw@coos.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: console $TERM under AIX 3.2
Date: 16 Oct 92 14:16:09 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Project NORTHSTAR
Originator: paw@coos.dartmouth.edu

How does AIX 3.2 decide its default $TERM for the console?  AIX 3.1
did the "Right Thing" for me and came up with $TERM=hft - csh on AIX 3.2.??
doesn't get it right, and tries 5081 (which appears to be getty's default).  
Info tells me that this is settable in the Odious Data Mungler, but 
not how to do it, and I've not been able to figure it out.  

Any ideas?  I know that ksh "cheats" by stuffing a default in /etc/profile,
but I can't do that for csh, nor is it feasible to change all the .logins
to special-case AIX 3.2...

Thanks.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell~)
Subject: Re: How can I find out which model of RS/6000 am I logged on ??
Originator: tmcconne@sedona
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:23:21 GMT


In article <Bvuvtn.Cw6@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell) writes:
> In article <BvtFLq.GG3@storcon.uucp> john@storcon.UUCP (John Hunley) writes:
> >In article <1avpk9INNstb@fnnews.fnal.gov>, shah@fnsony.fnal.gov (Hemant Shah) writes:
> >|> Suppose I telnet to an RS/6000 system how can I tell whether it is model 320
> >|> or model 550 or any other model ??
  <stuff deleted>
> Try uname -m.  As for who knows what the machine codes mean, read the
> man page for uname.  On my 3.2 system it defines the machine codes up
> through the 550 and 950 models.  (I presume that 3.2.2 and 3.2.3 have
> more complete lists.)  The InfoExplorer has the same list.

  The list of machine codes is not available in InfoExplorer on AIX 3.1.x
machines.

    Cheers,

    Tom McConnell
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: ben@osiris.usi.utah.edu (Ben Pratt)
Subject: Re: >PS/2 AIX article - horror story
Keywords: IBM AIX DRIVER PS/2 RS/6000 
Organization: Utah Supercomputing Institute
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 16:45:46 GMT

In article <1992Oct09.203641.23259@NeoSoft.com> wcs@NeoSoft.com (Bill
Simpson) writes:

  > PS/2 AIX and RS/6000 AIX are two different animals, and not
  > even remotely related!!! The best I can tell is that nobody
  > is running AIX on the PS/2. 

We use AIX on the PS/2 specifically for its Transparent Computing 
Facility to cluster our systems programmer's workstations and user
front ends with an IBM 3090-600s running PAIX.  It is very useful.
We are also very upset with IBM over the differences between the
RS/6000's and PS/2's, but for different reasons... mostly that they
didn't provide TCF in RS6K product, so we can't seamlessly add them
to our production cluster.  There's plenty to complain about in both
OS's, but the TCF on the PS/2 product was is very nice.  Still, in
they're infinite wisdom (!?) the IBM PS/2 AIX folks removed TCF 
from the product in version 1.3 (so I am told).  So you might now
be correct in saying that nobody uses PS/2 AIX --- they certainly 
got rid of the only feature that we used it for...

Ben
ben@snow.usi.utah.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.dcom.sys.cisco,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
From: mark@uvmark.uucp (Mark Baldridge)
Subject: Performance question
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 14:22:22 GMT
Organization: Vmark Software, Inc.
Keywords: syscall

I have an application running on about 36 different UNIX boxes.  
On the RS6000 it generates about 16000 system calls per second more than
on other platforms, in addition to corresponding system degradation.

Is there a simple way to determine which calls these are?

Please email a copy of the answer.

Thank you

Mark
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: ben@osiris.usi.utah.edu (Ben Pratt)
Subject: Re: Network disease
Organization: Utah Supercomputing Institute
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 16:17:07 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.200044.20713@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
boone@convex.cl.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) writes:

  > I manage a 6000/520 running AIX 3.2.0 connected to the local ethernet.
  > 
  > I noticed when I first started working with this system that some kinds
  > of network activity are not quite as quick on a 6000 as on some other
  > systems.  It sometimes takes a second or two longer to set up an inbound
  > telnet/rlogin session than, say, some Suns around here.
  > 
  > Late last week the delays got really annoying.  Instead of taking an extra
  > second or two, it became an extra 5, 10 or worse.  Outbound connections of
  > various sorts are suffering too, as is keystroke echo while logged in.  In
  > fact, a couple of times a day the lag will be 20-30 seconds.  It's not
  > every keystroke or every connection setup, but it does occur fairly often.
  > 
  > The machine is largely idle.  Our network guru says the network load is 
  > not particularly high or unusual for our environment.
  > 
  > Any hints cheerfully accepted.  I'd love to have my nose rubbed in how I
  > would go about using any appropriate debugging tools to study the problem.

Name resolution could be causing the delays if you are using name
serving.  An indication of this is sometime shown by getting normal
response when using the dotted address (128.110.156.10) versus a long
delay when using the name (apache.usi.utah.edu).  I usually look at this
kind of obvious stuff first...

What does netstat -I en0 1 say?  Lots of traffic?  Broadcast storms
maybe?  You could use a network sniffer to determine this....  How about
memory constraints (output from netstat -m to look at the mbufs. memory
requests denied, etc.)...  Are the times of day where the 30 second lag
shows the same times every day?  Could there be something running on the
box interfering with performance at that time, or perhaps a problem NIC
on a machine in some office that happens to get turned on at that time
each day?  You've probably tought of all this stuff, but I definitely
sympathize with your situation, so thought I'd through some thoughts
out...

Ben
ben@snow.usi.utah.edu
From: hardiman@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Paul V Hardiman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Limiting concurrent logins
Date: 15 Oct 1992 15:32:13 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: hardiman@csd4.csd.uwm.edu


We're setting up an RS/6000 as a TN3270 server for our administrative
mainframe.  We want to have a single userid logged in multiple times
concurrently to provide TN3270 sessions.  However, our AIX license is
for a limited number of concurrent sessions, and we don't want the
number of concurrent TN3270 users to reach this limit - this would
prevent system administrators from using the system.  Is there any
way to limit how many concurrent logins a given userid can have?

Thanks for any insights you can offer.

Paul Hardiman
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
hardiman@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.sun.admin