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From: jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: NEC CDROM drive and A/UX
Date: 26 Aug 92 22:28:42 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.aux
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


  I can't get A/UX 3.0 to install with my NEC CDR-73M
(same as CDR-74) CDROM drive. After some superficial
research, I heard the following:

  1. Apple support center: "All of the Macintosh-compatible CDROM drives
     will install A/UX 3.0 except NEC's. We are still trying to
     find out why."

  2. Apple technical person: "We know which CDROM drives work with
     A/UX but we don't want any lists floating around because
     the vendor may eventually get their CDROM to work with A/UX. 
     We only officially endorse the Apple CDROM drive (Sony mechanism).

  3. Friendly net person: "NEC drives still don't
     comply with the Mode Select when it says to speak only in 512 byte 
     blocks thereafter until reset....it's NEC's fault."


     Hosed in A/UX-land,

             ---jason    jason@cs.utexas.edu
From: halpin@vsg1.dsg.dec.com (Stephen E. Halpin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: multiple monitors?
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:53:03 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <189@posix.COM> hlj@posix.COM (Hal Jespersen) writes:
...
>How well does A/UX 3.0 work with multiple monitors?  If I got a second
>monitor (initially a backup while the first is in the shop), could I
>reasonably run CommandShell in either or both?
>
>Assuming the previous answers are affirmative, are there any known
>incompatible B&W big screen monitors?  I have a IIx.
>
>Thanks,
>
>					Hal Jespersen
...

A/UX supports multiple monitors in 2.0.1 and 3.0.  I am using the
Apple 2-page display and the Apple 13 inch color monitor (Im curious
why the ROM on the color card is BETA, but thats for another time..)
A/UX 2.0 will not support multiple monitors.  As for CommandShell
windows, they, like all other Mac windows, can be moved across both
monitors freely.  The only thing Id warn you about is third party
display cards.  A/UX is, well, picky about what itll gack and what
it wont.  Also, the 8.24GC card from Apple is unsupported, and
will likely never be supported.  -Steve
From: levan%eagle@EKU (Jerry LeVan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: DayStar
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:04:22 -0400
Organization: Listserv to Netnews Gateway at pucc.Princeton.EDU

Hello,

Well I loaded A/UX 3.0 onto a small disk and tryed installing the
DayStar A/UX 2.0 drivers and wound up with an unbootable kernel.

DayStar apparently does offer a close to 50% off upgrade on the equivalent
PowerCache. (You gotta give back the old PowerCard/Accelerator though).

When I installed the old 020 CPU, I botched the installation and severly
bent a row of pins, after some effort I was able to get the little devil
back into the socket, but the machine no longer has any sound! Every thing
seems to work and I get a happy mac on startup. Any suggestions as to what
the problem could be?

Jerry (never,never work on your own machine) LeVan
levan%eagle@eku.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: csh is screwed up
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:25:37 GMT

powellb@samwise.colorado.edu (Brian Powell) writes:

>No it is not a User error, thank you.  

>I have modified the script I originally posted, and I still have problems.  As
>you will recall, I am having trouble getting csh to execute this script 
>correctly, so I modified it, so that it does not require any .cshrc file, etc.

>#!/bin/csh -f
>set test = `/bin/pwd`
>echo $test
>exit

>There, everything is explicit, and should work for everybody.  However, it will
>only work on my A/UX 3.0, Mac IIfx, with 16 megs erratically.  I ran it 10 times, consecutively, and it worked 3 out of the ten.  The others, it never
>executed the pwd command.  I ran it both under csh and tcsh with the same
>results.  I realize that this should work for everybody; however, has anyone
>else had this problem or resolved a similar one?

Well, I tried this and it worked fine... Is it possible that your csh
got mangled?

sumdir /bin/csh
48700   107332 /bin/csh

sum /bin/csh
21681 210 /bin/csh
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  Let's not bicker and argue about who
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  killed who."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: File Sharing Broken?
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 10:19:41 GMT

Saeedi@cup.portal.com (Steven J Saeedi) writes:

>Hello all,

>I have recently installed A/UX 3.0 on an fx in a network
>involving Un*x based and NetWare based servers.  We have 
>the NetWare servers routing the AFP protocols from LocalTalk 
>to 10-Base-T (Ethernet).

>The A/UX machine is acting as a AppleShare server using 
>the file Sharing Extension in System 7.0.1.  The problem
>I'm experiencing is that the A/UX machine is EXTREMELY slow
>when it comes to file sharing.  It takes about 10 minutes to
>copy a 10K file from a Mac on LocalTalk to the fx on Ethernet.
>The NetWare servers on Ethernet are much faster.

If the entire "/" is enabled for sharing, then A/UX will be _very_
slow... this is even mentioned in the Installation ReadMe file.
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  Let's not bicker and argue about who
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  killed who."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen)
Subject: Re: File Sharing Broken?
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:39:50 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

Try leaving an application other than the finder in the foreground on the
IIfx which is serving. This should improve things, although it's unlikely to
be the complete solution.

Even in Finder 7.0.1, Apple has yet to follow the rules it itself laid down
many years ago, about providing sufficient background time. This is rediculous.

--
Alexis Rosen   Owner/Sysadmin,
PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC.
alexis@panix.com
{uupsi,cmcl2}!panix!alexis
From: israel@risky.Convergent.COM (Paul Israel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: csh is screwed up
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:31:23 GMT
Organization: Unisys Unix Systems Group, San Jose, CA

From article <1992Aug27.171503.794@colorado.edu>, by powellb@samwise.colorado.edu (Brian Powell):
> 
> 	Does anyone know why the csh included with A/UX 3.0 is so screwed up?
> This simple example here does not work under the A/UX csh; however, it works on
> Sun, DEC, HP, IBM, and SGI.  Here it is:
> 
> 	#!/bin/csh
> 	set test = `pwd`
> 	echo $test
> 	exit
> 
> 	This program will not echo anything because the scripting with csh will
> not execute the program pwd as it is supposed to.  Does anyone know a work
> around to this (beside tcsh)?  I can't use tcsh for the application I am 
> applying this to.

   Say, you don't have your pwd command aliased to anything in your
.cshrc file, do you? That sometimes causes problems with `` notation
when you run it from a command line, although I'm not sure what would
happen from inside a shell script. Good luck!
-- 
Paul Israel -----------------  israel@risky.convergent.com
Senior Smartypants ----------- Unisys Corporation, San Jose, California
Disclaimer: "Who, me? I wasn't even there!"
From: Saeedi@cup.portal.com (Steven J Saeedi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: File Sharing Broken?
Date: Thu,  3 Sep 92 09:46:09 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa
  <1992Sep1.163950.5356@panix.com> <Btwv3I.HAM@acsu.buffalo.edu>
  <1992Sep2.091008.11347@panix.com>

>Try leaving an application other than the finder in the foreground on the
>IIfx which is serving. This should improve things, although it's unlikely to
>be the complete solution.

Unfortunately, that does not help the situation.  Even when I try
to get to another machine on the ethernet with the fx, the response
is almost nil.

>
>Even in Finder 7.0.1, Apple has yet to follow the rules it itself laid down
>many years ago, about providing sufficient background time. This is 
rediculous.

Well, looks like I may have to move to a IIcx.  The IIfx is almost
worthless for what I need to do.  The unix perfomance is really good,
but alas if Macs can't get into it, then that's only half the cake.

-- Steve Saeedi
>
>--
>Alexis Rosen   Owner/Sysadmin,
>PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC.
>alexis@panix.com
>{uupsi,cmcl2}!panix!alexis
From: fujii@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (John Fujii)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:59:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Radius 24XK hangs A/UX?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux

In comp.unix.aux, pbuck@tcs.com (Peter Buckner) writes:

> A/UX 2.0.1 hangs when trying to launch  with  new  color monitor (I see the
> old familar scream & shout message in the startup window.)
>
>	<Text deleted>

	Peter---

	I whole-heartedly sympathize with your situation.  Months ago,
	(actually, more than a year ago), I was trying to get a Truevision
	NuVista+ to do the same thing.  Just a few months ago, I discovered
	a solution which may help you (and all other 3rd-party board owners
	out there).

	A/UX 2.0.1 (can't speak for 3.0) attempts to close all slots
	it doesn't have valid board ID's for when it launches.  This
	can be important for several reasons others have explained to
	me in detail, but I won't go into here.  Your board is not
	recognized and so A/UX attempts to close it (and hangs).

	The solution (although probably not sanctioned by Apple) is to
	ResEdit a copy of the startup application.  I can't find my
	writeup I sent to Truevision, but the gist of what you want
	to try is:

		* Inside ResEdit, check out the Menus resources
		  and enable the "Debug" menus.

		* Start up A/UX in the normal fashion, but cancel
		  the normal loading when the opportunity is 
		  presented.

		* Using the menu bar option (Debug), select the
		  set startup flags (?) option (only from memory
		  here).

		* Select the "Don't Close Slots" check box and
		  try booting from the menu bar.

	If all goes well, A/UX will get past the point where you
	hang and you'll get a dual headed desktop.  (I've successfully
	been using this on the NuVista+ for several months now.)
	There's no guarantee of what other irregularities this 
	may cause, but my 2.0.1 hasn't misbehaved recently.

	There are other modifications you can perform to have this
	happen as the default case (like installing your Board's ID
	in the table of valid slots to leave open), but I haven't
	got time to type that in without sitting at my Mac.

	Good luck, and I hope this helps!

	John Fujii
	fujii@fc.hp.com
	info_mgr@siggraph.org		Siggraph.Org Info Mgr

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                    otherwise) are solely those of the
                    author and do not necessarily reflect
                    any positions held by his employer.

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From: dundas@chip.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (John Dundas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Those PC-disk CDEVs
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:28:37 GMT
Organization: Information Systems Engineering Grp, JPL

I have Access PC (but use it very little) running on my 2.0.1 system.  A
colleague of mine does the same under 3.0 with no apparent ill effects.
Note the neither of us really exercise this s/w too much but it appears
to operate correctly.  Haven't noticed any slowdown in floppy access.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: AUX3.0 crashes under Finder - Why?
From: R.Singh@massey.ac.nz (R. Singh)
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 02:27:43 GMT
Organization: Massey University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Using the Finder under AUX 3.0 seems to crash my machine ever so often.
Unix is still alive as I can telnet to my machine from other places, but
the Mac side of it seems to crash, as it won't respond under file sharing
from another Macintosh. 

I am running a Quaddra 700. Anybody else has the same problem. The problem
seems to occur most often if I go into the System Folder on the Mac
Partition. The cursor changes to a clock and stays that way.

The FAQ suggests using C-C-i or C-C-e, but anybody know why it should
happen in the first place.

Raminder Singh

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: pablo@malloco.ing.puc.cl (Pablo Millan)
Subject: Help : Desktop Problems in A/UX 3.0
Organization: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:19:05 GMT



i Installed A/UX on a Q 950 last saturday. I make just one HFS partition of
40 Mb, and leave the another 360 Mb for UNIX. ( three partitions, root, swap 
& users). I have enough RAM (20 Mb), so the problem isn't memory.

I install Word 5.0 on the users partition, it works fine, but the monday 
the folder was gone (looking as Mac). Looking from the shell the folder was
there. I read in the FAQ that the functionality of the TuneUp was inside A/UX
It looks like the bug in 7.0 with the folders. (Of course the folder has all
the UNIX privileges for all).  

Another thing, the documents are loosing icons, if i click in a MPW doc, 
(even with the correct icon) MPW doesn't start, simply i got the typical 
message (do you wan to open it with TeachText?).

How can i rebuild the desktop for all the users?. More, how can i rebuild
the desktop for root?. I'm using the same system folder for all the users.

If it is a typical question then please email answers to my address below.

thanks in advance.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: Feelin' Blue
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:31:07 GMT

levan%eagle@EKU (Jerry LeVan) writes:

>Question1: Does anybody know if the A/UX 2.0 PowerCard driver works
>        under A/UX 3.0?

I don't know, but it seems kinda crappy for DayStar (and out of character
for them as well) to stop supporting their hardware like this.

>Question2: Does anybody have any comments about the suitability/performance
>of the 520 Fujitsu vs the 535 Maxtor HD's (One salesperson says that
>Fujitsu is "noisy" (45 db @1 ft) but the Maxtor is (25 db @ 1ft))?

My 2624FAs (Fujitsu 520) are nice and quite and perform quite well.
I've heard the Maxtors and they seem just as quiet... A _lot_ depends
on the enclosure, of course. I can recommend the Fujitsus with no hesita-
tion.

>Question3: The Chip Merchant has 4meg simms with PAL for the MacII
>at $109.00, is this a "best buy"?

It's a very good price.

>Jerry LeVan (email: levan%eagle@eku.bitnet)
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  Let's not bicker and argue about who
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  killed who."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: dsoulele@uccs.jpl.nasa.gov (Dean Souleles)
Subject: AUX/2.01 Problems
Originator: dsoulele@uccs
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:10:43 GMT

I'm having a couple of problems with A/UX 2.01 networking. I wonder
if anyone has seen anything like this or has any suggestions.

OK, first:

I'm having a problem with portmap. I have configured 4 each nfsd 
and biod. NFS is working ok. I can act as both a server and a client and all
the file transfers seem ok. But, periodically, the whole networking
layer seems to get hung up. When I use "netstat -a" I sometimes get
just "???" in the spot where the tcp sockets should be listed, other times
I get dozens and dozens of tcp sockets connected to the portmap port. When
this happens the entire network layer bogs down seriously to the point where
tcp connections fail.

I can't figure out where all the connections to portmap are coming from. They
all originate from the local workstation, but I have been unable to identify
the process that is doing the connecting.


Second:

In an attempt to improve overall network performance I increased the
kernel parameter NMBUFS to 2000. This had the desired effect, less
network timeouts, generally improved performance, but now I occasionally 
get a kernel panic:

        panic: clget    null client

I haven't been able to find any reference to this panic in the doc's.


Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
-- 
Dean Souleles			dsoulele@uccs.jpl.nasa.gov
				dsoulele@dsfvax.jpl.nasa.gov

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: dsoulele@uccs.jpl.nasa.gov (Dean Souleles)
Subject: A/UX Kernel Panic
Originator: dsoulele@uccs
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:27:16 GMT


In an attempt to improve overall network performance I increased the
kernel parameter NMBUFS to 2000. This had the desired effect, less
network timeouts, generally improved performance, but now I occaisionally
get a kernel panic:

        panic: clget    null client

I haven't been able to find any reference to this panic in the doc's.


Any ideas?

-- 
Dean Souleles			dsoulele@uccs.jpl.nasa.gov
				dsoulele@dsfvax.jpl.nasa.gov

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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From: weigert@etlhit.etl.go.jp (Thomas Weigert)
Subject: Q. re: dir.h
Reply-To: weigert@mcs.anl.gov
Organization: Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba-shi, Japan
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:55:35 GMT


Often, when porting software that compiles fine on all kinds of unix boxes
over to A/UX, I run into the following difficulty:

Almost unfailingly, when dir.h is included, the compiler complains about
"parsing problems before *", and the offending lines typically are

   telldir (DIR *dirp);

or any of the other functions that have DIR as their type. 

Unfortunately, I know very little about C (I just read it, and eventually,
by trial and error and the little mac porting skills I acquired that way, I
get the programs going). I would apopreciate very much if somebody could
explain to me what the problem is in this case, and what to do about it. 

Any hints are welcome. Cheers, Thomas.

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| Machine Inference Section      |                                 |
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From: yaosenko@acsu.buffalo.edu (Yaosen Ko)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: File Sharing Broken?
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:54:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: UB

In article <1992Sep1.163950.5356@panix.com> alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>
>Even in Finder 7.0.1, Apple has yet to follow the rules it itself laid down
>many years ago, about providing sufficient background time. This is rediculous.
>

Does this also hold under generic MacOS 7.0.1?  In other words, should
we do the same under MacOS?
From: un032463@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: HELP!!!!!!!  I can't Install A/UX 3.0 !!!!!
Date: 29 Aug 92 18:45:39 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing

HELP!!!!!!

	I am trying to Install A/UX 3.0 and my system hangs!  Since it is Sat,
I am hoping someone out there in net land can help me out!  O.K., here goes:
I am doing fine until I get the A/UX launching window, and then my computer 
hangs!  I have a IIci w 20MB , 120MB hard drive, Internal Video.  I took out
the cache card, because I thought it was the problem, but alas it was not!

Any one out there have any suggestions?  Please E-Mail me if you do!  Thanks!

							Mike Manzo
						West Virginia University
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: Q. re: dir.h
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:23:56 GMT

weigert@etlhit.etl.go.jp (Thomas Weigert) writes:
>After a few more experiments yesterday night I came up with the following
>heuristic rule:

>If "compile gets funny parsing errors due to dir.h"
>and "sys/types.h is already included"
>then "use gcc with flag -traditional"

>This helped for ispell 3.0.7.

What this does, of course, is avoid the ANSI C prototyping...
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  Let's not bicker and argue about who
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  killed who."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: parag@netcom.com (Parag Patel)
Subject: Re: Those PC-disk CDEVs
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 22:53:47 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

I tried out Access PC for a while, but finally ended up dumping it.  I
was running into peculiar crashes occassionally, especially when trying
to access the floppy drives from A/UX (the CommandShell).  Perhaps newer
versions are better, but frankly I don't have the desire to find out.

What I use now and strongly recommend is the "mtools" package from the
net.  It's on various archive sites, such as the linux repositories.

What this package does is provide a bunch of DOS tools that access a
floppy through the raw /dev device.  There are commands such as "mdir",
"mcopy", "mdel", "mformat", "mlabel" and so on that emulate those DOS
commands.  (These commands only work from the A/UX environment.)

I've never had a problem since, and I exchange 1.4Mb PC floppies with my
friend's laptop without any problems.  True, it doesn't look as cool as
being on the desktop, but at least I don't have any annoying text file
conversion problems between A/UX, MacOS, and AccessPC.

I can make a set of A/UX diffs available to those that want it.  mtools
is pretty easy to port.


	-- Parag Patel <parag@netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: powellb@samwise.colorado.edu (Brian Powell)
Subject: csh is screwed up
Organization: Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:15:03 GMT

	Does anyone know why the csh included with A/UX 3.0 is so screwed up?
This simple example here does not work under the A/UX csh; however, it works on
Sun, DEC, HP, IBM, and SGI.  Here it is:

	#!/bin/csh
	set test = `pwd`
	echo $test
	exit

	This program will not echo anything because the scripting with csh will
not execute the program pwd as it is supposed to.  Does anyone know a work
around to this (beside tcsh)?  I can't use tcsh for the application I am 
applying this to.

							Thanks,

							Brian

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