HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: greendog@insti.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D. Fischer)
Subject: SMAIL config problem
Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:56:37 GMT

I am trying to switch to SMAIL here, and it works except for one
problem:  it has trouble recognizing the local machine name.  i.e.
if I am on "max.physics.sunysb.edu" (hostname returns "max") and
send mail to "root" it delivers it via 'local'.  If I send to
"root@max" it delivers via 'local'.  If I send to
"root@max.physics.sunysb.edu" it doesn't realize that this is the
local machine, and SMTP connects to itself and sends the message.
The receiving smail then does the same thing.  It enters a loop,
which eventually aborts and returns the mail.

Any idea what is causing this?

Mike
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From: mark@bart.hac.com (Mark Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Should be in FAQ: Security holes in default /etc/passwd file
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:58:58 GMT
     <ui4bjgk@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> <C0GKHt.18s.2@cs.cmu.edu>
     <uij5h2g@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
Organization: Hughes Training, Inc.
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1

Re: security concerns revisted

Perhaps I don't understand, but the change that DEC made in the VMS
installation procedure after getting burned badly several years ago was
quite modest and was also quite effective. If you are not aware of the
method they used, they added several prompts to the system installation
procedure that asked for passwords for the default accounts like SYSTEM,
FIELD, and SYSTEST. If you tried to enter MANAGER, SERVICE, and UETP (the
original default passwords for those accounts), the procedure would ask
again for an original, non-null, password.

Of course, DEC has greatly strengthened the security of VMS since then
and for a price (:-<) can provide more extensive security capabilities
and periodic rechecks of system security items.

I don't expect SGI developers to go to the lengths that DEC has in making
a full featured secure operating system. I do expect SGI developers to
make reasonable efforts at providing a secure environment for me to do my
own development, and that the deliverable systems we sell can be made
secure to meet my customers needs. I think it is reasonable that SGI
developers add some simple changes to system installation procedures that
make the systems more secure. I also think it is reasonable that periodic
security checks be made automatic for a nominal fee [though I would think
that several people reading this news feed alreay have such things for
free].

  --Mark Johnson <MARK@BART.HAC.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: schieb@shark.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brian D. Schieber)
Subject: How portable are ISAM files?
Reply-To: schieb@shark.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brian D. Schieber)
Organization: Oceans & Ice Branch, NASA/GSFC/GSC
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:24:44 GMT


I'm looking into the idea of taking a set of VAX index files
and implementing them on my SGI using the ISAM package.  
I'm new to this investigation and was wondering if someone 
out there has had experience with this.  Specifically I'm 
wondering if the ISAM index files could be used on other platforms
or if there are conversion capabilities available. 


Thanks,
 Brian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: topix@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (L. Mae)
Subject: arena++ (arx) question
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 08:20:10 GMT




Does anyone know if arx runs across Ethernet like arena does?
If it does, what the hey.
Please someone let me know, this is incredibly important.
   - OK so I'm desperate for a decent game.



John Mariella     
topix@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca



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From: andreas@miris.phys.chemie.tu-muenchen.de (Andreas Lammers)
Subject: Flexfax with MODEM ROCKWELL RC32ACL/V1.02C
Summary: received faxes are just 100 mm in length
Keywords: MODEM ROCKWELL RC32ACL/V1.02C Flexfax haeussler fax class2
Reply-To: andreas@miris.phys.chemie.tu-muenchen.de 
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 11:03:33 GMT

Dear Hackers,

the new year has begun and the money is beginning to flow again.  So we
bought a modem from Haeussler. The modem says it's a ROCKWELL RC32ACL/V1.02C.

I got the flexfax software from sgi.com and just after one change in the 
source-code (I had to elimiate the @ in the dial-string) the sending of faxes
worked perfect. 

We just have the problem that incoming faxes are being cut after about
100mm. The log entry says something like 

Jan  5 10:10:42: [11465]: --> [7:+FET: 0]
Jan  5 10:10:42: [11465]: RECV PPM: more pages, same document
Jan  5 10:10:42: [11465]: start 30 second timer
Jan  5 10:10:42: [11465]: stop timer
Jan  5 10:10:42: [11465]: --> [2:OK]
Jan  5 10:10:42: [11465]: <-- [6:AT+FDR]
Jan  5 10:10:42: [11465]: start 30 second timer
Jan  5 10:10:42: [11465]: stop timer
Jan  5 10:10:42: [11465]: --> [14:C%J^B.\202\202jR]
Jan  5 10:10:42: [11465]: start 30 second timer
Jan  5 10:10:42: [11465]: stop timer
Jan  5 10:10:42: [11465]: --> [2:OK]
Jan  5 10:10:44: [11465]: <-- [6:AT+FDR]
Jan  5 10:10:44: [11465]: start 30 second timer
Jan  5 10:10:44: [11465]: stop timer
Jan  5 10:10:44: [11465]: --> [5:ERROR]
Jan  5 10:10:44: [11465]: REMOTE HANGUP: Unspecified Phase C error, \\
  including too much delay between TCF and +FDR command (code 90)
Jan  5 10:10:44: [11465]: RECV: end
Jan  5 10:10:44: [11465]: SESSION END

I know, flexfax is not originally supported by SGI, but if anyone
has an idea, it would be really nice.

Thanks

Andreas


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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: DAT tapes
Date: 12 Jan 93 06:54:19 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <104431@netnews.upenn.edu> yates@a.chem.upenn.edu (John H. Yates) writes:

| I just got an Indigo with a DAT tape. I bought an
| audio DAT tape from Silo and made a backup.
| Is there the same uncertainty of what one can
| vs. should use (data grade vs. video, here audio)
| with DAT as with 8mm, or not?

Yes, the issues are similar, although in general DAT drives
are much better at using audio grade tapes.  Still, you probably
won't get as many reuses, and they may not last as long.

Since consumer DAT tapes are harder to find than 8mm video,
and the price differential is not as great, you may want to
consider simply staying with data grade DAT cartridges.

Of course, to be official, you shouldn't do use anything other
than data grade.  Also, don't forget to clean the drive every
30-50 hours with a cleaning tape, and here you *do* need data
grade cleaning cartridges; the audio ones aren't recognized 
(different hole pattern on the body).
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From: greendog@insti.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.admin
Subject: Re: Help! Can I recover screwed up tar archive?
Date: 9 Jan 93 21:23:49 GMT
Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook.


| I need to extract information, if possible, from a tape which tar reads as
| having a 'directory checksum error'. Is there a way to trick tar into reading
| a tape screwed up in this particular way?

Like Dave said, it's probably byte swapped.  If not, try getting the
following from ftp.uu.net:

> usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume7/tar_aids.Z

There are two programs, one which will go through a corrupted tar file
looking for valid file headers (listing them) and other which will
extract them.

Mike

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From: klingler@triton.unm.edu (karl da id klingler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Need help getting an NFS server
Date: 12 Jan 93 08:15:06 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
NNTP-Posting-Host: triton.unm.edu

Hi, folks.  I am posting for a friend who would like to use his Indigo
as an NFS server but doesn't want to shell out $800 to SGI for their version.
I'm not knowledgeable enough about NFS to advise him.  Does anyone have any
suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: carlson@support.newport.sgi.com (Chris Carlson)
Subject: Re: Is C++ available on IRIS machines?
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:25:43 GMT

In <C04uy6.GnH@utdallas.edu> veerasam@utdallas.edu (Jey Veerasamy) writes:

>I have a simple question. Is C++ available in IRIS machines?
>Machine (running IRIX version 4.0) in my university does n't have it. 
>I want to do graphics programming in C++, Kindly tell me how I can
>install C++ in the machine.

Yes, it is.  It is a separate product and should be ordered from your
local SGI representative.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: manyin@helene.gsfc.nasa.gov (Michael Manyin)
Subject: PM_ADD24 on RE
Reply-To: manyin@helene.gsfc.nasa.gov (Michael Manyin)
Organization: NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:45:44 GMT

On Dec 28th, I posted the following:

> We are porting a program from a VGX platform to a Crimson/RealityEngine,
> and have been finding it difficult to make full use of the 4096-entry
> colormap when lrectwrite'ing  8-bit images.
> 
> Specifically, we suspect that the call
> 
> pixmode( PM_ADD24, 256 );
> 
> on the RealityEngine, is the problem.
> 
> 
> In fact, any integer offset greater than 0 produces anomalous behavior.
> 
> The pixmode manual page claims that "Pixel addition can...
> be used to offset the range of a color map image",
> and our code  works fine on VGX and Indigo Elan machines.

Several people replied; the bug is recognized and real.
A couple SGI people got involved (thanks, guys!) and so
I can summarize the status of the bug:

There is an "internal bug report" already on file; while the
behavior was supposed to be fixed in an upcoming maintenace release,
it is not in 4.0.5G .   It should be fixed in 5.0.

Of course, if you have memory to burn, you can store data in 16 bit
pixels, and do the offset yourself.


Mike Manyin

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: Frank.Taylor@launchpad.unc.edu (Frank Taylor)
Subject: Re: Starting applications as icons
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:08:58 GMT

In article <1icuojINNisd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> steve@pitacat.math.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen) writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.190953.15232@odin.corp.sgi.com>, mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang) writes:
>> In article <1ick60INNbo1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, steve@pitacat.math.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen) writes:
>> |> I would like to have several X applications start up as icons.  Xwsh has
>> |> an -iconic option built in, but other applications do not.  I vaguely
>> |> remember reading in some manual that it is possible to specify some
>> |> resource to do this, but I have been unable to locate the reference.
>> 
>> It depends on the application.  Any Xt-based application (e.g. Xaw,
>> Motif) will accept -iconic and recognize the *iconic resource (e.g.
>> -xrm "*iconic: true").  Other applications may or may not work
>> depending on their widget set and command-line option handling.
>> 
>
>OK, let me be more specific.  I want to startup /usr/sbin/notepad and /usr/sbin/apanel, both iconified.
>
>In the case of notepad:
>
>pitacat [53]% notepad -xrm "*iconic: true"
>notepad: illegal option -- x
>Usage: notepad [-ph] [-f font-name] [-s point-size] [-N notepad-file]
>
>In the case of apanel, there is no error message but the application starts
>up not as an icon. 
>
>Perhaps what I was remembering was that there was a way to modify the behavior
>of GL programs.  But either way, apanel is pure X, so that might not apply. I haven't figured out whether notepad is GL or pure X, but it does use a 12 bit deep visual.
>
>-- 
I don't know about apanel, but notepad has an undocumented option
"-i" for starting it up as iconic.  Just do 'notepad -i'.

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From: cheimets@cfasg0.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: *post*
Date: 7 Jan 93 02:16:11 GMT





I got a Lisp compiler named 'akcl-1-615.tar.Z', and an associated
kcl.tar.Z from an FTP site.  I am having trouble compiling it on an
sgi.  I was wondering if anyone out there has had experience with this
software on the SGI.

Specifically when a run a machine nmae patch it returns errors. Trying
to compile it after that results in it failing the run to completion.

I don't follow the posting, so please address responses to my email
address: cheimets@cfa.harvard.edu.

Thanks

Peter Cheimets
(617)495-7369
From: bc770@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (George Burgyan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: cmplrs/stsupport.h
Date: 4 Jan 1993 23:24:33 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bc770@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (George Burgyan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


I was trying to compile GCC-2.3.3 on an IRIS 4D that I have an account on,
and it all works well execpt fot the fact it cannot find
"cmplrs/stsupport.h".  The directory "cmplrs" exists, but there are no
files in it.  If anyone has this file, I would really like some information
about what is in it.

Thanks in advance.

GB!
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From: greendog@insti.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D. Fischer)
Subject: Re: SMAIL config problem
Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:05:37 GMT

>>>>> On Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:56:37 GMT, greendog@insti.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D. Fischer) said:

Michael> I am trying to switch to SMAIL here, and it works except for one
Michael> problem:  it has trouble recognizing the local machine name.  i.e.
[etc]

OK, so I fixed that problem.  It was the "domains=" was not set.
However, things are still funny.  When I send mail to a machine
running smail, it arrives with the header
 "From max.physics.sunysb.edu!greendog" when I think it should be
 "From greendog@max.physics.sunysb.edu".  I can't find where this
is happening...

Mike
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: dave duling
Subject: adding harddisk
Keywords: ESDI, SCSI, harddisk, SGI
Reply-To: duling@vaxe.niehs.nih.gov
Organization: national institute of environmental health sciences, us gov.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:18:00 GMT

Greetings.  I am new to configuring SG computers.  I now have a 4D80GTX
with the Interphase ESDI controller, a (new) 330MB ESDI harddisk, and 
a tpsc tape device.  I don't have a maint. contract.  I need to know:

1. Can I add a scsi hardisk to the system as is ?  The documentation seems
   to imply there is a scsi disk system (dpsc) and a scsi tape system (tpsc),
   is that the case ?  I connected a too-small scsi disk to the scsi connector
   and the system appeared to recognize it, but is this a good way to run ?

2. If I do get a scsi disk to work, can I remove the Interphase board ?  I tried
   that but the system refused to boot to the prom monitor.  Must I somehow tell 
   the prom that there is no Interphase board in slot 3 ?

Any responces to  "duling@vaxe.niehs.nih.gov"   are appreciated

-- dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  Printing with lpr on an IRIS
From: noren@trident.datasys.swri.edu (Greg Noren)
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:33:59 GMT
Organization: Southwest Research Institute

In article <34907@adm.brl.mil> blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB) writes:
>Mehmet D Ertas <ertas@athena.mit.edu> writes:
>    "SGI supports printing with lpr only if the printer's on
>     a non-sgi machine, but not vice versa, as far as I can tell."
>
>     Hogwash!  We have printers on SGI's and Sun's and use lpr exclusively
>to send files to from ALL machines and with no problems.  Just manually set
>up your printcap and hosts.lpd files the same as you would on any standard
>BSD UNIX machine.  Currently we are using parallel ports on our SGI's for
>the printers, however I know of people who use the serial ports too.
>
I agree with Brent that these configurations are very do-able.  I have a 
CalComp color electrostatic plotter cabled to my 4D/35's parallel port _and_
serial port.  The SUNs and SGIs on my LAN are quite capable of sending multi-
megabyte encoded files to it purely via lpr().

My customer has attempted the same kind of arrangement, though, and has
experienced problems.  If I understand correctly, SGI wants you to use lpr()
and lp() jointly - there has been a thread on this in the past.  Perhaps 
this is what is officially *supported* by SGI, and if you're lucky enough to
get the purely lpr() approach to work, more power to you.

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From: lee@turbo4.rsg.hac.com (C. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: problem with "select()" with Indigo audio library
Summary: "select()" doesn't work; "poll()" does;
Date: 12 Jan 93 20:35:48 GMT
Organization: Hughes Transportation Simulation Center, HAC; Culver City, CA

I'm having trouble using "select()" with the audio on an Indigo.

I do:	ALsetfillpoint(audio_inp_port, new_fill_point);
	FD_ZERO(&read_set);
	FD_SET(ALgetfd(audio_inp_port),&read_set);
	status = select(1, &read_set, NULL, NULL, &timer);

and "select()" only returns when the timer expires.  I also do
"ALgetfilled()" to check, and there's >> new_fill_point samples in there.

I finally switched to using "poll()" instead, and that seems to work
correctly.

I'd like to know why "select()" didn't work.  Is there something more I
need to do to get it working on an audio port?  (I've used "select()"
before on standard input and didn't do anything extra or have any
problems.)

I've looked thru the "Digital Audio and MIDI Programming Guide" and the
"Programming with the Audio Library" chapter, and using "select()" sounds
like it should be as straightforward as the code fragment above.

Thanks for any help.
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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: developing under sys 5 unix
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:11:03 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1993Jan11.190843.6808@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> vahe@sparcy.Stanford.EDU (Vahe Avedissian) writes:

| I don't know if anyone else has the same experience,
| but I am always frustrated, and my patience tested
| when developing on SGI or other machines running
| Sys 5 unix.

Umm, I don't think this has anything to do with the version of
unix...

| The real annoying thing is once you run a program
| with a bug, the system tends to completely stop responding
| to interrupts or anything else, the windowing
| system and manager are rendered unresponsive too.

Well, I don't quite believe that as stated either!  If you have
some problem that causes the window system or kernel to die,
by all means report it.  It may have been fixed in a later release,
or it may have a workaround.  Nobody is going to be able to help
you with vague complaints like this.

| You just sit there and wait for the system to eventually
| (i.e. anywhere from 3 - 10 minutes or so) core dump.

The kernel dumping to swap, or Xsgi dumping a file to /usr/tmp/core?

| I've used Sun's for many years and I have rarely seen
| the window manager and entire workstation come to a halt.

You've been lucky...
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