HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bruce@blilly.UUCP (Bruce Lilly)
Subject: Re: trn 2.2 mthreads on 3b1
Organization: Bruce Lilly
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 23:00:31 GMT

In article <88805@netnews.upenn.edu> kupiec@hp800.lasalle.edu (Bob Kupiec) wrote:
>
>Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, what did you do to fix it?

The problem has been reported by many people. I don't run
mthreads as a daemon (who needs yet another process running to
clutter up the process table and swap space?); I have modified C
news to run mthreads immediately after processing each incoming
news batch, and I run mthreads in expire mode from cron once
daily:

grep mthreads /usr/lib/news/* /usr/lib/news/*/* /usr/lib/newsbin/* /usr/lib/newsbin/*/* /usr/lib/crontab

/usr/lib/news/syslog:Sep 13 00:40:10 blilly mthreads[24031]: Started mthreads -c -v2 -z -a all 
/usr/lib/news/syslog:Sep 13 00:40:21 blilly mthreads[24031]: Processed 5 groups:  added 0 articles, expired 18. 
/usr/lib/news/syslog:Sep 13 00:49:04 blilly mthreads[24037]: Started mthreads -e -v2 -z -a all 
/usr/lib/news/syslog:Sep 13 00:49:04 blilly mthreads[24037]: Using enhanced expiration for this pass. 
/usr/lib/news/syslog:Sep 13 00:50:26 blilly mthreads[24037]: Processed 271 groups:  added 0 articles, expired 0. 
...
/usr/lib/news/rn/mt.check:Subject: mthreads error!
/usr/lib/newsbin/batch/sendbatches:# run mthreads in the background
/usr/lib/newsbin/batch/sendbatches:/usr/lib/news/rn/mthreads -acvvz >/dev/null &
/usr/lib/crontab:# run mthreads after expire
/usr/lib/crontab:49 0 * * *	/bin/su news -c '/usr/lib/news/rn/mthreads -aevvz'
/usr/lib/crontab:# mthreads is now run from sendbatches, which is run from newsspool, which is run by rnews

Of course, with this setup, I have had no problems with mthreads memory
leaks, swap space usage, or process table limits.  Moreover,
mthreads is run *immediately* after batch processing, ensuring
that the threads database is up to date for all externally
posted articles (locally-originated articles get added after the
next hourly sendbatches run).

The syslog entries above are due to running trrn/nntpd1.5.11t
under inetd and syslogd.

Refer to the C news documentation for the -I flag to newsspool
(invoked by the rnews script) for details on how to get C news
to run newsrun immediately.  It's a simple matter to modify the
code to run newsrun followed by sendbatches.
-- 
	Bruce Lilly		blilly!bruce@Broadcast.Sony.COM
					...uunet!sonyusa!sonyd1!blilly!bruce
From: tsouth@techbook.com (Todd South)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: AT&T PC7300 & System Software for sale
Date: 4 Sep 92 01:16:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: techbook.1992Sep4.011602.29345
Organization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 220-0636

For Sale:
=========

-  AT&T PC7300 Unix System Software and Programmers
   Development Utilties.                                $300.00

-  AT&T Unix PC7300 Computer.                           $150.00

Please call Todd at 503/639-0739. Leave a message with your
phone number to return the call.  Thanks!

Todd South

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From: gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Zmodem file transfers......
Date: 14 Sep 92 02:30:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: gnosys.1992Sep14.023053.18789

In <1992Sep6.201128.24256@ceilidh.beartrack.com> dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com
	(Don Nichols (DoN.)) writes:

> In article <1992Sep5.175637.11391@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
	jbunch@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Bunch) writes:
> >...
> >I just finished compiling zmodem for my 3b1/7300 and was gonna play around
> >with it, but the man page says it won't work with some versions of cu...

> 	However, probably your best bet is to compile pcomm (a unix variant
> of ProComm), which can be configured to work with multiple external
> protocols...

Don is right.  I've been using sz/rz with pcomm for quite some time, and they
work like a charm.  The only problem I have is that I can't kill zmodem with
a ^C - you have to kill the process from outside the pcomm session, which is
a bit of a drag if it gets hung up for any reason (most commonly waiting too
long to get things started at the UNIXpc end and the other side times out).

Good luck.

Gary
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Somerville, Massachusetts              {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Arthur Wouk)
Subject: am i having incredible shrinking screen syndrome?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:58:19 GMT

after all the talk about the shrinking screen, i noticed, when doubling
a message for multiple printings that the right side of the screen
seems smaller than the left side on my 3b1.


margins for the screen are:


	on the left: 1/4 inch

	on the right: 5/8 inch plus epsilon

this is obtained by moving the arrow cursor to both sides of the
screen and measuring to the framing edge. is this normal, or have i
started down the path to destruction?
-- 
arthur wouk 
internet: wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu
From: jon%vector0.UUCP@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Dazed N. Confused)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: What's the 3b1 still have going for it?
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 16:34:56 PDT
Organization: Vector Zero

res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli) writes:

> For my money, the best thing the 3b1 has going for it is the software.
>                                                                     I
> really think I would spring for a '486 box if it wasn't for the cost of
> a good Unix software platform.

     Ah, but Linux is free and works well.  BSD386 is getting very
close.
     Since Linux is advertised as "beta" I thought it would be
prone to crash.  But friends have been running it with no problem,
and supposedly many non-hacker types have been running it for months
without a hitch.  Then you just need a 486, at least 4 megs memory,
and a large hard drive.

     I don't mean to sound anti-3b1.  I love my 3b1, I just wish it
didn't have all those panics..

--Jon

   jon%vector0@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US           Two 3b's fell off a cliff.
   PacBell.COM!sactoh0!vector0!jon                         Boom Boom.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: John.Bunch@bbs.oit.unc.edu (John Bunch)
Subject: pc7300 fails to boot after panic...
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 23:15:06 GMT

Howdy all..

I cant get onto nyx right now, so...  Well, here is my problem:  I 
ended up getting a panic on my machine, it was the same one Terry
Macdonald got.  (IO err on push)  Well, I reset my machine and now it
will not boot.  It keeps getting a disk read error when it tries to read
the harddrive.  Is there any way to get my machine to boot, or do I have
to wait till I get a new harddrive?   I am really bummed that I cant use
it..  I am forced to use my atari st till I get my 7300 fixed.  Any
clues out there???

John

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From: wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Arthur Wouk)
Subject:  i am having shrinking screen syndrome. need help
Summary:  i need better  info to locate the bad capacitor
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:25:31 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.165819.183@colorado.edu> wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Arthur Wouk) writes:
>after all the talk about the shrinking screen, i noticed, when doubling
>a message for multiple printings that the right side of the screen
>seems smaller than the left side on my 3b1.
>
>
>margins for the screen are:
>
>
>	on the left: 1/4 inch
>
>	on the right: 5/8 inch plus epsilon
>
>this is obtained by moving the arrow cursor to both sides of the
>screen and measuring to the framing edge. is this normal, or have i
>started down the path to destruction?
>-- 
>arthur wouk 
>internet: wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu

checking things out in greater detail i believe that i am starting the
shrinking process, and that the horrizontal linearity is being lost.

i have the FAQ and need information, maybe a picture to locate C411,
the 4.7 uf capacitor that is the cause of the problem. i do not have
access to the hardware manuals for the 3b1.

can anyone help?
-- 
arthur wouk 
internet: wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu
From: paulmack@well.sf.ca.us (Paul Mackinney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: 3B1/PC7300 4 Sale
Date: 9 Sep 92 15:02:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link



One of these has got to go!

PC7300 with 3.51 installed, 1mb ram, 1200bd OBM, 40meg hd
     This has been my primary workstation for bbs work for sometime,
     includes latest kornshell, Development Set, more.

3B1 with 3.51 installed, 1mb ram, 1200 bd OBM, 63meg hd
     The hd has a bunch of stuff on it, currently set up for use with
     Hayes 2400 modem, will ship that way or reinstall the
     OBM phonemanager, your choice.

Asking $300 for the PC7300, $400 for the 3B1, call or reply to this message.

Paul Mackinney 510/428-2217
paulmack@well.sf.ca.us
From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: What's the 3b1 still have going for it?
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:52:39 GMT
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <Xc84qB6w165w@vector0.UUCP> jon%vector0.UUCP@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Dazed N. Confused) writes:

>     Ah, but Linux is free and works well.  BSD386 is getting very
>close.

Another one to watch for might be Mac Mach, which I've read CMU will release
"soon" in the form of a CD for $100.  An article in MacWeek claimed it
would include full source code and multi user license.

>     I don't mean to sound anti-3b1.  I love my 3b1, I just wish it
>didn't have all those panics..

I love my 3B1 too and it has been running 24 hours a day with several UUCP
neighbors ever since the big "Fire Sale" (when was that... can't remember...
1987?).  Anyway I have not experienced "all those panics" you mention.  Over
the years I've read about other peoples' problems, so I guess it can happen
under the right circumstances, but my machine has probably crashed less
than 10 times since I bought it.  I have a stock 3B1, 2MB RAM, 67 MB disk,
EIA Card, HDB UUCP, Unix 3.51a, all hooked up to a 325W UPS.


.............................................................................
....Boyd Ostroff / Technical Director / SUNY Oswego Department of Theatre....
...............Voice: (315) 341-2987 /  Fax: (315) 341-3394..................
..............ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu / ostroff@cboard.UUCP................
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: lhawkins@olaf.wellesley.edu (Lee Hawkins)
Subject: Lots o' 3b1/7300 stuff for sale -- UPDATE #2 -- LOWER PRICES
Organization: Wellesley College
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:57:05 GMT

Well, I've been doing some cleaning, and it's time to get rid of
some of the 3b1/7300 stuff that I no longer use.  Prices on everything marked 
obo are negotiable.  All others are FIRM.  Prices DO NOT include shipping,
COD, or (only in the case of the 7300) packing charges.  I make NO
guarantees about the condition of the 7300 or the Dos-73 board, other
than they were working fine when I shipped them.  I will ship these items 
UPS COD, and email you the price including shipping just after I have shipped 
it and know the number.  Lastly, I will deliver the 7300 (and ONLY the 7300---
NOT the software) within 50 miles of Wellesley.  Alternatively, you may pick 
up any of the items at a prearraged time at my office at the Observatory at 
Wellesley College.  Note the lower starting prices for the hardware!


Software:

	Qty.			Description			Price ea.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	1	ATT System Software and Manuals v3.0		$25
	1 *	ATT SuperCOMP 20 Spread Sheet			$25
	1 *	ATT Business Graphics				$25
	1	Microsoft Multiplan				$50 obo
	2 NOW 1	ATT System Software and Manuals v3.51		$75
	2 SOLD	ATT Unix-PC Word Processor			$25
	1 SOLD	Microsoft Word v1.x				$50 obo
	2 SOLD	DBase III					$50 obo
	1 SOLD	Samna (Spread Sheet, Database, Word proc)	$100 obo
	1 SOLD	UniPlex II (Spread Sheet, Database, Word proc.) $50 obo
	1 SOLD	ATT Software Devel. Utils and Manuals v3.0	$25

* Since these can work together, I'll let them go as a package for $40.
	
Hardware:

	Qty.			Description			Price ea.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	1	Dos-73 Board, Plug, Manuals, and Software	$125 obo
	1	7300, 512k MB, 20Mb. HD, new battery		$275 obo

________________________________________________________________________________
R. Lee Hawkins					 lhawkins@annie.wellesley.edu
Department of Astronomy				 lhawkins@lucy.wellesley.edu
Whitin Observatory
Wellesley College                                   Ph. 617-283-2708
Wellesley, MA 02181                                 FAX 617-283-3642
________________________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1,comp.sources.wanted
From: gordon@TASVAX.NSWSES.NAVY.MIL (Gordon C. Zaft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: silly questions re: Ethernet
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:39:48 GMT
Reply-To: gordon@TASVAX.NSWSES.NAVY.MIL
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division


	A couple of simplistic questions re: running the Ethernet board
on the 3b1.

	1) Does the board come with thicknet, thinnet, or both?

	2) Is there any way to use it with NFS so as to access big
disks on other machines?

	3) Can I at least do massive afio-s to do a backup over the
net to another machine with a tape drive?

	Thanx.

GZ

----
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 gordon@tasvax.nswses.navy.mil | zaft@suned1.nswses.navy.mil
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1,comp.sys.apollo,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.sequent,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.cray,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: CFV: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Date: 7 Sep 92 02:45:10 GMT
Organization: D & D Data

In article <Bu3wJF.6Cp@hico2.westmark.com> kak2@hico2.westmark.com writes:
>Daniel S. Lewart (d-lewart@uiuc.edu) wrote:
>: This is a Call For Votes (CFV) for the comp.graphics.gnuplot newsgroup.
>: The newsgroup would be unmoderated and its charter is given below.
>: 
>: To vote *for* the creation of comp.graphics.gnuplot, reply to
>: gnuplot-vote@uiuc.edu with either of the following:
>
>I have had no luck e-mailing my vote for this in.
>Anybody else having problems?

	I waited an extra day to give bounced e-mail a chance to come in,
and I have seen no sign of problems here.  I have to hand-mangle addresses
to get them out of here, but they wind up at uunet, and apparently there is
no problem from there.

	DoN.

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From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1,biz.comp.telebit
Subject: Re: WorldBlazer on 3B1 (aka UNIX PC)
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:28:37 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1992Sep11.185817.7361@gnosys.svle.ma.us>, gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) writes:

| I've tried playing with S51 (DTE Interface Speed), but nothing short of
| setting it to 5 (which would force the interface speed to 19200, and make
| auto-bauding impossible) seems to work.  At first I thought the problem

  You almost have it right. The correct phrase is "make auto-bauding
unnecessary." What you want to do is to lock the serial line at 19200
and use hardware flow control for your line. Then select outgoing call
speed via S50 (also diddle S0, S7, S111) and let the modem handle all
incoming calls at the right speed everytime.

  I do this on a BBS I run, and it works just right.
-- 
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    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: clyne@miranda.scd.ucar.edu (John Clyne)
Subject: Super Cheap PC7300 - SOLD
Organization: Scientific Computing Divison/NCAR Boulder, CO
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 14:24:13 GMT


No more inquiries please. Its sold. Thanks for all the response.

jc

John Clyne 	(clyne@ncar.ucar.edu)		%%% Its a small world. But
National Center for Atmospheric Research	%%% I wouldn't want to paint
P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, Colorado 80307		%%% it. -- S. Wright
(303) 497-1236	FAX (303) 497-1137
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: rmfowler@landru.mtc.ti.com (Rex Fowler)
Subject: system and boards for sale
Reply-To: rmfowler@landru.mtc.ti.com
Organization: Manufacturing Technology Center, Texas Instruments, Dallas
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:04:59 GMT


Selling for a friend.  Respond to me if interested.
 
 AT&T 7300 UNIX PC
    - Motorola 68010 processor
    - 20 MB Hard Drive (WD2010)
    - 2 MB RAM
    - 1 Serial, 1 Parallel Port
    - Standard Keyboard and Mouse
    - Internal Modem
    - 12" Monochrome Screen
    - Unix 3.5 System software installed on Hard Drive
    - No Manuals or Software other than what is on the Hard Drive
    - Works Fine
                      Price $150
 
 
 Quantity      Description                                  Price each
 --------      -----------                                  ----------
    2          2 Meg Expansion board                           $100
    2          Starlan board (no software)                     $ 50
    1          Voice Power board with Manual and Software      $180
    1          DOS-73 boards (no Manuals or Software)          $ 50
 
 
 All prices include S&H via UPS inside U.S.
 Terms - secured form of payment (money order etc)
 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: andy@cs.caltech.edu (Andy Fyfe)
Subject: Re: help with terminal type?
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:14:09 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.234800.3042@ceilidh.beartrack.com> dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.)) writes:
>	Bear in mind that kermit does not do terminal emulations, so the
>terminal behavior you get will be the underlying terminal that invokes
>kermit.  In this case, it is the raw screen behavior set up by the kernel.
>My copy of SunOs 4.1.1 has:
>
>	s4|PC7300|unixpc|pc7300|3b1|Safari 4:
>
>as an entry in /etc/termcap, but I can't be sure at this time whether I
>added that from the termcap that came with the 3b1.  If this line is *not*
>in /etc/termcap (which is really something like /usr/share/lib/termcap, with
>/etc/termcap a symlink to it), and you cannot add an entry to the Sun's
>termcap file, than you have another option.

On our suns (sunos 4.1.2) there is no entry for the unixpc in /etc/termcap.
However, there is an entry in /usr/lib/terminfo
	7300|unixpc|pc7300|PC7300|unix_pc|AT&T UNIX PC Model 7300,

Further, some programs such as vi use the terminfo entry, not the termcap
entry.  I wound up having to make my own terminfo entry when I noticed vi
was misbehaving.  This was some time ago, so it may no longer be true.

In any event, you should use a name in the TERM variable that is common
to both -- that way you're covered whichever database is used.

Andy Fyfe					andy@cs.caltech.edu
From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: help with terminal type?
Date: 15 Sep 92 00:32:28 GMT
Organization: D & D Data

In article <1992Sep11.171409.502@cco.caltech.edu> andy@cs.caltech.edu (Andy Fyfe) writes:
>In article <1992Sep10.234800.3042@ceilidh.beartrack.com> dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.)) writes:

>>My copy of SunOs 4.1.1 has:
>>
>>	s4|PC7300|unixpc|pc7300|3b1|Safari 4:
>>
>>as an entry in /etc/termcap, but I can't be sure at this time whether I

	[ ... ]

>On our suns (sunos 4.1.2) there is no entry for the unixpc in /etc/termcap.
>However, there is an entry in /usr/lib/terminfo
>	7300|unixpc|pc7300|PC7300|unix_pc|AT&T UNIX PC Model 7300,
>
>Further, some programs such as vi use the terminfo entry, not the termcap
>entry.  I wound up having to make my own terminfo entry when I noticed vi
>was misbehaving.  This was some time ago, so it may no longer be true.

	This is still the case.  I also made my own terminfo.  (It is more
difficult to make a local terminfo database than a local termcap database,
so the assistance of the system operator may be needed (or the tic may have
the necessary permissions suid'd into it).) ...  Nope, no suid bits, so
you'll have to get the help of whoever is root on the machine (unless you
are).

>In any event, you should use a name in the TERM variable that is common
>to both -- that way you're covered whichever database is used.

	Right.  I think that I made my terminfo from my termcap (using the
captoinfo on the 3b1 and tic on the Sun), and I seem to remember folding
into the termcap (and the terminfo) an improved descriptor sent to the
newsgroup a few years ago.

	Good Luck
		DoN.
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