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From: starkg@argon.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Gavin E Stark )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: HP C1532A Tape Drive on RS6000
Date: 25 Jan 93 09:11:53 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona - Tucson, Arizona

Can anyone please tell me if they had to preform any special incarnations
when installing their HP C1532A DAT drive?  I do not seem to be getting
the performance ratings specified and would like to know if I need
special drivers, or configurations, to get the high speed performance
of this DAT drive?  

Also is their any type of program that will tell me the read/write speeds
of my tape drive? (other than reading/writing a specified amount of data
and timing it...)  If anyone has their read/write specs on their 1532A
could you please send them to me?

I appreciate the effort it takes to respond! 

Thanks,
-Gavin Stark

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From: dwittke@zeus.calpoly.edu (Dean Wittke)
Subject: X-windows screen dump question...
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:26:02 GMT

For documentation reasons, I would like to take a x-window screen
dump, then bring it into a PC based Word for Windows document.

I know that you can use the xwd command to get the dump, but what
format is it in?  I need to get it into BMP or PCX, and have PC
based conversion tools for GIF, JPEG/JPG, TIFF and so on formats.

Any help would be appreciated!  And no, we do not have any PC based
X systems up and running yet! 

Thanks!    


Dean Wittke



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From: mondore@jacob.its.rpi.edu (E Andrew Mondore)
Subject: Re: Building a bootable floppy
Reply-To: mondore@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:57:17 GMT

In article <fogarty-220193121057@159.70.37.113>, fogarty@erenj.com (Ben Fogarty) writes:
|> 	In the January issue of RS/Magazine there was an article on setting up
|> emergency procedures
|> for your RS6000. One of the first things which should be done is build a
|> bootable system
|> onto an alternate media to permit getting at the hard disk. The article
|> cites publication
|> SC23-2341-05 - AIX Installation Guide. Unfortunately, the machine I
|> inherited has no manuals
|> and I can't look up the procedure. I am running version 3.2 of the
|> operating system. I would very
|> much appreciate a set of instructions on how to create the bootable system
|> cited in
|> the publication mentioned. If it is too complex to  write up, I'll try to
|> get that manual.
|> 
|> 	Thanks very much for your help.
|> 
|> Ben Fogarty - Senior Staff Analyst
|> Exxon Research & Engineering
|> Computing and Telecom Support Division
|> fogarty@erenj.com
You want to create BOSboot Diskettes.  You'll need either three or four
3.5" 1.44MB disks to do this.  If your machine has a graphics adapter, you'll
need four diskettes -- otherwise you'll need three diskettes.

First, format the diskettes using the "format" command.

Second, create the BOS Boot diskette by inserting a formatted diskette into
the diskette drive and enter "bosboot -a -d fd0".

Third, create the BOS Display diskette by inserting a formatted diskette into
the diskette drive and enter "mkdispdskt".

Fourth, create the BOS Install/Maintenance diskette by inserting a formatted
diskette into the diskette drive and enter "mkinstdskt".

Fifth, if your machine has a graphics adapter, insert the fourth formatted
diskette into the diskette drive and enter "mkextdskt".

Finally, write protect the diskettes.

Hope this helps. 
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From: tdavis@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Davis - Invoice)
Subject: More about qdaemon "disappearing"...
Summary: I've also had qdaemon disappear on me!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:39:21 GMT
Keywords: AIX 3.2.2 qdaemon print

I can't offer any solutions about the qdaemon "disappearing", but I can
offer the fact that I've seen it happen on two more systems.

Both of the systems are PowerStation 340's running 3.2.2. One has 3 queues
defined, the other ~25. On both systems, qdaemon simply stopped running for
no apparent reason. The previous posting about qdaemon being sensitive about
serial lines may be true, but the system with 3 queues is all parallel!

There was nothing out of the ordinary going on either system.

Any more thoughts about why qdaemon dropped are appreciated.

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From: marko@meaddata.com (Mark Osbourne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: backup and the -p option
Date: 22 Jan 1993 16:24:21 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Distribution: world
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A friend currently without net access is having a small problem with
backup and the -p option.

The -p option tells backup to pack the files it puts on tape, thus
saving tape at the expense of cpu cycles.  Unfortunately, there is a
70 Meg file that backup -p refuses to compress.

The file is compressable; compress squeezes the file from 70 Meg down
to about 7 Meg.

How does backup decide whether to compress the file or not?  Is it
based on available space on /tmp?  Is it based on available memory
swap space at the time?  

Thanks for any help you can provide.

-- Mark Osbourne -- marko@meaddata.com --
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From: grumpy@jpradley.jpr.com (Jeff Markel)
Subject: Re: OEM CD-ROM on RS/6000
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:53:00 GMT
Organization: Unix in NYC

In article <1993Jan25.072127.16566@epa.ericsson.se> epamjh@epa.ericsson.se (Malcolm Hill) writes:
>I suspect I am banging my head against a brick wall, but...
>
>Does anyone know if it is possible to use non-IBM CD-ROM players with a RS6K
>(in particular a 320 with AIX 3.2.3)?
>
>The official response from IBM is that they have only supplied entries in ODM
>for the IBM player (ie. no 'oscdrom'), and they didn't know of anyone that had
>accomplished it.
>
>I have an unused SUN CD-ROM (the innards are a SONY mechanism), and I am sick 
>of NFS mounting the INFO CD from an unreliable SUN machine.
>
>All Responses gratefully received...
>
>Malcolm Hill
>
>Mail to : epamjh@epa.ericsson.se

I've not tried this, so take it with a few grains of salt...

It's my understanding that the IBM CD-ROM drives are Toshiba 3301s.  You
could probably use one of those, as the driver is probably looking for the
"TOSHIBA" string from the drive.  Who makes Sun's drive?


                        Jeff Markel

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From: cpcahil@vti.com (Conor P. Cahill)
Subject: Re: Is there Purify for RS/6000?
Keywords: Purify
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:11:02 GMT

tye@spillman.uucp (E. Tye McQueen) writes:

>They also will be happy to E-mail you a comparison of their product
>and the SENTINEL Debugging Environment (mentioned in another follow-up)
>so you can decide which is right for you.

Be sure to ask for our comparision and our response to their "comparison". 
We can send you all three if you like.

I guess the other thing to remember is that we are available on the RS/6000
now (in addition to HP, DEC, SEQUENT, SVR4, Solaris 2.x, SVR3.2, SCO),
not some time in the future.

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Virtual Technologies, Inc.  46030 Manekin Plaza          Dulles, VA 20166
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Friday, 22 Jan 1993 10:25:19 EST
From: Ron Wigmore <SYST8103@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject:    Another Newbie Asks A Question ...


We just had three RS6K boxes installed on our computer floor.  I have been
reading over a few of the manuals, checking things, etc., and I came upon
the part which says that "the default installation option is to spread
rootvg over all available disks".  I checked and, yes, that is the way
it was installed.

Most of my experience is on mainframes and we would never put the system
components on each and every disk, since losing any one disk means your
system crashes.  We tend to have 'system' disks, 'application' disks, and
'user' disks.  This way, if you lose a disk, the chances are the majority
of the users can continue 'business as usual'.

Are RS6K boxes so *radically* different that the "mainframe way" is not
a necessary approach?  We only have 6 hdisks, so I do not have a lot of
flexibility when it comes to 'spreading things around'.  Would it not be
wiser/safer/better to have hdisks 1, 3, 5 as 'system' disks and merge the
user/application stuff on hdisks 2, 4, and 6?

Without getting into I/O contention concerns - at this point in time - I
think this would give me a 50% chance of my system crashing if we lost
a disk, versus the 100% if we used the 'default way'.  Losing a system
disk gets equated to being "shot *twice* in the head with a shotgun",
and since you're dead anyway after the first blast, the second one is
irrelevant.  :-)

Also, is the mirroring of the allowable (not page, dump, etc.) system
areas a good thing or does it create more problems than it solves?  I
was thinking that we could mirror the critical system areas so that if
we lost hdisk 3, the contents of hdisks' 1 and 5 would let the system
continue to run, albeit, the system would run much slower.  In the world
of mainframes we call this "degraded service" which is preferable to no
service at all.

I have other newbie questions, but I am in the 'designing the basic system
layout phase", there's no sense in asking them just yet.  Hmmm, am I just
bringing my "archaic mainframe methodologies into the UNIX world", or are
these 'basic performance/availability concerns' applicable to the UNIX
world?

Ron,,,
I am new to UNIX - sorry if these are naive questions!  :-)
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From: jochenr@neuro.informatik.uni-kassel.de (Jochen Ruhland)
Subject: Header page on printer
Keywords: printer
Organization: FG Neuronale Netzwerke - Uni Kassel
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:56:13 GMT

Hi everybody,

most of the time we print our jobs without header pages, but, just in
case somebody forgot to specify -h on the lpr command, who can we
control the look of the page?
We would prefer to have a totally empty header page, so we could
still feed the paper back in the printer?

As I understand there is a control-file in /usr/lpd/pio/ddi
but this is a binary file.
There must be a edit-program for this type of database - only where?

Any help appreciated, thanks
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From: csfed@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Frank E. Doss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: tn3270 *into* rs/6000?
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:00:40 GMT
Organization: Eastern Illinois University

We currently have a need to permit users to connect to our rs/6000 using
tn3270.  Is this practical/feasible?  What do I need to do to do this?

Thanks in advance.

-Frank

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From: mcbryde@navier.math.uh.edu (Jack Mcbryde)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Experiences installing AIX 3.2.3
Date: 28 Jan 1993 22:00:41 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: navier.math.uh.edu

In article <1993Jan28.202657.2491@msc.cornell.edu> rick@cougar.msc.cornell.edu (Rick Cochran) writes:
>In article <1k3u00INN872@menudo.uh.edu>, mcbryde@navier.math.uh.edu (Jack Mcbryde) writes:
>|> In article <1993Jan26.155849.11544@msc.cornell.edu> rick@cougar.msc.cornell.edu (Rick Cochran) writes:
>|> 
>|> >    o I had 90MB of info database in my /usr filesystem although I had
>|> >      explicitly excluded its installation.
>|> 
>|> I suspect what happened here is that there are multiple info files. For example
>|> the info for X11 is part of the X11 distribution, not part of bos????.
>|> To eliminate virtually all info you have to be sure to also exclude the
>|> info files associated with the lpps you install. (Not all lpps have them,
>|> but some do. Seems like X11, X11_3d, and all of the compilers other than C
>|> have associated info files that would get installed if you didn't notice
>|> them. There are probably others too.)
>
>I explicitly excluded the info files from ALL of the lpps.
>
>My guess is that the 90MB of stuff came from the updates.

Well, I just built a 3.2.3 later release system from scratch (ie, all of the
updates) and /usr/lpp/info contains about 6Mb. The largest subdirectory
is En_US which is 2.88Mb. In fact:

# cd info
# ls
En_US     X11fonts  bin       data      notes
# du -ks *
2888    En_US
964     X11fonts
2208    bin
0       data
4       notes

jack
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From: assist@orion.oac.uci.edu (ASSIST Coordination Site)
Subject: Re:List Server for AIX 3.2
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:46:27 GMT





Followup-To: 
Distribution: 
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Keywords: 
 
Is there anyout out there who is familiar with implementing a ListServ for
AIX 3.2. Where can you get a copy of the software(Public Domain) What are
the step to take to implement a listserv on aix 3.2. I am just learning
the AIX 3.2 system running X-windows. Please Help I'm desparate to get
this working. Email to gil@fs2.assist.uci.edu, Thanks
:wq


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From: lucien@watson.ibm.com (Lucien Van Elsen)
Subject: Re: Shared Library for C++ Classes, How?
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:30:18 GMT
Distribution: usa
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

dchen@vicstoy.UUCP (Daixiang Chen) writes:
>   How to make the try.o a shared library? If the export file is need 
>   (as needed for C functions) how to say 
>   "export class example or export class::print" in export file format?
>
>   We use XL C++ 1.0, run AIX 3.2.2, I don't have the C++ compiler's user
    guide. 

There is a "makeC++SharedLib" script in /usr/lpp/xlC/bin that you can use to
do this.  Before using it, you'll need to create a file that contains a list
of all the symbols (member function names, data object names, etc.) that
will be exported to the library using /usr/ucb/nm on the .o file.  From this
list, exclude all symbols that begin with a '.' and include all the virtual
tables (symbols that start with __vft or __vtt) of type T, D, and B that may
be used by your program.  If the library references other shared libraries,
you'll need to create an import file of symbols to be resolved by the
binder.
Then, use 
makeC++SharedLib -E export_list file.o file2.o
to create the shr.o for the shared library.

I'd suggest that you get the User's Guide, by the way- not only does it give
detailed instructions and examples for doing this and other obscure and
useful things, but it only costs $2.62 (according to my database; pub number
SC09-1472-01).  Definitely worth the price.

	-Lucien
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From: bell@hops.larc.nasa.gov (John Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX Function Equivalent To VM's "RETRIEVE" Function
Date: 26 Jan 1993 16:01:13 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: hops.larc.nasa.gov

Many people have offered responses detailing how to set up the Korn shell for
command-line editing, but as a manager of an RS6K that was used to port VMS
applications, I can testify that VMS users really like the command editing 
functions of tcsh. They are very similar to VMS and much easier to learn than
"vi" or "emacs" style command line editing. tcsh is easily compiled on the 
RS6K and is available from most major ftp sites.

-----
John Bell
NASA Langley Research Center
bell@bell.larc.nasa.gov

Xref: sparky comp.unix.aix:13816 comp.lang.c++:20065
From: royg@netcom.com (Roy H. Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.lang.c++
Subject: AIX C++ Compilers
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:26:11 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

We're interested in doing a C++ project on AIX.

Does anyone know what compilers/development enivronments are available,
and their respective advantages/drawbacks.

I would definitely like to hear from anyone concerning their experiences
with any C++ on AIX.

Thanks.

				-- Roy
From: ccaasub@ucl.ac.uk (Steven Bridge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: nhfsstone
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:52:52 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium

Has anyone ported nhfsstone to aix?
If so, what changes did you have to make?

Steven Bridge ( Systems group - University College London Computer Centre )
From: mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: top command on aix?
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 06:42:48 PST
Organization: Beckman Software Engineering
Reply-To: mbeckman@mbeckman.com
Distribution: world
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In article <16B648858.A9000005@tscc.macarthur.uws.edu.au> (comp.unix.aix), A9000005@tscc.macarthur.uws.edu.au writes:
> Great idea!  Works well except for one problem.  I (AIX 3.1.5) find
> that when a process has more that 9.9% CPU (ie 3 digits), the PID
> and the % CPU become one field and hence, sort puts them at the bottom
> of the list.  I pipe this to "head -23" so I only get the 23 most
> hungry processes, this meant that I lost all the big ones!
>  
> I replaced the "sort +2r" with "sort +0.14r" to sort from column 14
> on.  Column 14 is the first one after PID.
> 

I don't have this problem on AIX 3.2. IBM must have fixed it (although I
can't imagine why they were tampering with the output part of the ps program
in the first place!). 

  -mel

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From: op@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Olaf  Pors)
Subject: Re: Backups for RS/6000
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:26:45 GMT

>I have to backup my RS/6000 model 220 before a disaster occurs.

  See the discussions in pub/rs6000/rootvg.restores on
uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU.

Olaf Pors
University of Virginia
op@Virginia.EDU
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From: joann@ariadne.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
Subject: Re: What is with all the inst_Uxxxxxx directories?
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:33:39 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.085328.8316@cti-software.nl> pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
>christes@socrates.umd.edu (Skip Christensen) writes:
>
>>I was told that I could remove the inst_U* and deinstl directoreies in
>>/usr/lpp/bos  /usr/lpp/bosadt and /usr/lpp/X11rte.  I did - seems
>>to have no ill effects.  Freed up 30MB.
>
>Have you tried to apply a PTF after that ?

I just removed about 40Mb of this junk from my system, then put on a
whole tape full of updates. No complaints from installp, and no problems
so far.

N.B. All the inst_U* directories I removed were for committed updates,
not merely applied ones.

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From: neal@mnopltd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Getting tty Stats on individual ttys 
Date: 24 Jan 93 00:07:44 EST
Followup-To: 
Keywords: 
Organization: MNOP Ltd - Mini & Micro Consulting, Atlanta, GA

Subject almost says it all.  Is there an obvious way to collect stats on 
characters input and sent on an individual tty basis?   It appears that 
there are such things kept for the use of iostat.   Or is there a good 
example somewhere of how iostat gets those numbers?

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From: lpickup@xanadu.btv.ibm.com (Lance Pickup)
Subject: Re: AIX Function Equivalent To VM's "RETRIEVE" Function
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 12:55:58 GMT
Distribution: na
Reply-To: lpickup@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Technology Products

In article <93025.145117SYST8103@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>, Ron Wigmore <SYST8103@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> writes:
|> On a VM system we can set up a PFkey to recall any commands just
|> entered *AND* modify them.  AIX's 'history function' only lets me
|> re-issue commands just entered *unmodified*.
...
Ron,

  The Korn shell (ksh) has vi and emacs editing modes which let you
recall previous lines and use the standard editing keys to change
a line.  To use it, just issue 'set -o vi' and then at the prompt,
hit Esc to get into editing mode.  Then the 'J' and 'K' keys (or
'+' and '-') will let you go "up" and "down" through your previous
commands.  Use 'H' and 'L' to go left and right and you can use
any other vi key as well.
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