HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sdaveyj@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: modem-program
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 01:32:24 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.150933.19675@cv.ruu.nl>, anita@cv.ruu.nl (Anita van Nieuwenborg) writes:
> Hi!
> 
> Is there some (preferably PD) programm that handles ymodem or zmodem
> protocols? I also am looking for a nice modem-programm for normal use (eg
> connect to my university-computer).

A friend of mine here in Oz has just completed a really fancy mutitaking
modem program which handles the protocols you mention and others, and
heaps of features. (eg 115000 baud on A5000 multitasking downloading)

He plans to release it as "If you like it ware" so he does expect some kind
of contribution for his hard work if you like it.

If you are interested mail me. I can't respond directly via email, (usual
red tape) and I'll try and sort something out snail mail (send your address).

              John Davey

Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: kortink@cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink)
Subject: ARM3's for sale
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 12:37:36 GMT

I am posting this ARM3-opportunity on behalf of Les Currell :

---

I have a couple of 24MHz Arm3's for sale - prices very competitive!! 
If anybody's interested then they should mail me and we can arrange a 
meeting place/time at the forthcoming BAU show.

Les Currell  <currell@mpi-muelheim.mpg.dbp.de>

---

I can vouch for robustness and sheer class(!) of this upgrade. I
have one, and it has worked perfectly for a year now. Zipping
along happily ...


John Kortink

Student of Informatics at the University of Twente, The Netherlands
(God, will I ever stop doing things 'on the side' and get it done?)
NETMAIL : kortink@cs.utwente.nl              DISCLAIMER : the usual
From: arcturus@spuddy.uucp (Geoff Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Wanted - Archimedes Binkleyterm
Keywords: wanted,comms,binkleyterm
Date: 16 Oct 92 21:22:52 GMT
Organization: Spuddy's Public Usenet Domain

In article <2QLakBj025n@bridge.welly.gen.nz> wright_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>Subject says it all, really. Is there anyone out there with a copy of
>Archimedes Binkleyterm they could possibly email to me? Or even better,
>could someone upload it to the newcastle info server? I have been hunting
>for this beast for ages now. I even found the source for the PC version
>but am no expert at porting C code, especially when it includes 80*86
>assembler, and have not had any success so far.

Yes, I have Archie Binkley... I sort of maintain it... I don't really
know how to upload it to the newcastle info server; and it's rather large
to attempt to upload to spuddy to pass on at 2400 baud.  If you would like
to send me your address, I could probably sort out a disk for you.

Alternatively it's available for download from a number of bullitan boards
around the world.  Here in the uk your best bet is either The World of Cryton
or Arcade.  I'm not sure of the numbers for boards down your way though -
there are a few Archimedes boards in oz.

If anyone can tell me how to submit things to newcastle - without having to
spend hours on the phone - I'd be only to happy to provide ;-)
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From: Robert.Turner@brunel.ac.uk (Robert Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Student Offers
Date: 10 Oct 92 15:22:30 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK

smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows) writes:
%Acorn shares before they increased so dramatically in price (6p - 46p).

And down again to 36p on Friday..



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: kortink@cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink)
Subject: Updates
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 18:55:27 GMT

aua@cs.tu-berlin.de (Daniel Tamberg) writes :

>After watching the recent flame wars around John Kortink (who did not update my
>registered !Tranlator et al.!!!)
>[...]

What are you talking about ? If you want an update, email or snailmail me !
It does not happen automatically.

The reason for posting this is that more people seem to think I can't be
bothered. Rest assured all updates are sent back *the same !#$%@% day* you
ask for them via snailmail. I always have always given people this service.
Mail sometimes disappears and I can't help that nor notice it, can I ?

And please use EMAIL for these remarks. Next all these people who don't
know anything about me or what I do start bashing again. I'm sick of it.


John Kortink

Student of Informatics at the University of Twente, The Netherlands
(God, will I ever stop doing things 'on the side' and get it done?)
NETMAIL : kortink@cs.utwente.nl              DISCLAIMER : the usual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: as@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Heia guys: New flame war starting (ok, let's do it civilized...)
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:11:08 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
Originator: as@opal.comlab

In article <1992Oct13.111138.11974@bnr.co.uk> ajdh@bnr.co.uk (Andrew J D Hurley) writes:
>>>ARM700                         300  ps
>>>64MB RAM                       640  ps
>>>Disc drives (512MB SCSI & CD) 1100  ps
>>>Graphics System                300  ps
>>>16bit sound                    100  ps
>>>Floptical drive                100  ps
>>>Connectivity                   200  ps
>>>Quietness                        0  ps
>>>Bits & Pieces                  300  ps
>>>----------------------------------------
>>>SUM                           3040  ps
>>
>>How about adding in a few pounds for profit. Acorn is, after all, a
>>commercial company:-)
>
>True, but the prices quoted look like commercial rates to me and therefore
>include profit. The only truly significant extra would be R&D so maybe
>selling for 4000ps would be reasonable and a pretty good bargain too if
>it is up to Acorn standards.

Pretty good bargain!  It would be a Christmas present from nice uncle
Acorn.  4000 pounds is impossibly cheap for a system of such
configuration.  Why?

(1)  The prices for disc drives are really cheap.   1100 for a 512Mbyte
SCSI + interface + CD-ROM ... I'd like to see it done in the volumes
Acorn are talking about.

(2) 64Mbyte RAM for 640 pounds - no way Jose!  4 M byte Simms are
around 80 pounds.   You need 16 to make 64M ergo just the Simms would
cost you 1280 pounds, excluding the cost of PCB real estate and sockets.

(3) 100 pounds for a floptical drive.  Again, don't be silly.  Even the
el cheapo 20M byte ones are several hundred pounds.   Remember: the
dog-ordinary 1.44M byte floppies are still 40 pounds or so for decent
quality.

(4)  I doubt very much whether the shiny new ARM700 would be as low cost
as 300 pounds.

(5) 300 pounds for graphics to match the machine is absurdly cheap.
Even grotty old S3-based SVGA cards for PC's are still above 100 pounds.
Something with a decent amnount of VRAM would be much much more 300
pounds.

All in all the simplest way to cost a machine like that is to look at
the mid-range workstation market.  Even with the current
cut-throat competition SUN, Digital etc still can't offer a machine of
the above configuration for under 10000 pounds.  I know, I just looked
into getting some gear...

Furthermore:

How many of Acorns hobby/education customers have even
2000 pounds?   I bet the A3000 has outsold all other Arc's combined!

How many people in the market for a 4000 pound computer would
want a minority proprietary O.S. regardless of how good it is?

	Andrew




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From: lithgow@usl.com (Malcolm Lithgow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Acorn's pinboard does not follow their own rules (Bug)
Date: 12 Oct 92 05:12:42 GMT

[In message "Re: Acorn's pinboard does not follow their own rules (Bug)", I.D. Griffiths writes:]
>What I particularly liked about rthe last style guide from Acorn was the
>number of times it points out where Acorn's own applications deviate...

Sounds exactly like the Mac (though its style guide is a bit more
cowardly). ;-)

-Malcolm.  lithgow@usl.com  These are merely my opinions.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: dahe@cl.cam.ac.uk (David Elworthy)
Subject: GNU software
Reply-To: cpotter@uucp.ipsys (C Potter)
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:21:17 GMT

I recently received the following email. If anyone can help, please
reply to it. NB! Make the reply to the sender of the email! Not to me!

> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 13:30:50 BST
> From: cpotter@uucp.ipsys (C Potter)
> Message-Id: <9210131230.AA06509@ipsys.ipsys>
> To: David.Elworthy@uk.ac.cam.cl
> Subject: GNU software on Acorn Archimedes
>
> David,
> 
> I got your email address from the README of the Ghostscript 2.4 release, I
> hope you have some spare time to reply.
>
> I am interested in finding out what GNU software is running on the
> Acorn Archimedes, and what sort of configuration is needed. I am
> particularly interested in gcc (2.2.2) and gdb (as I want a cheap
> C++ development system). I want to run on one of the new machines
> (either 3010, 3020, or 4000, and RiscOs 3).
> 
> Any advice or contacts that can supply source or binary distributions
> would be appreciated.
>
>
> Callum Potter
From: mre@ukc.ac.uk (Mike)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: 3D borders
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:17:05 GMT
Reply-To: mre@ukc.ac.uk (Mike)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

In article <Bw2EJM.CCv@brunel.ac.uk> cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk (Jason M Banham) writes:
>Cast your minds back to last year when Roger Wilson posted (let escape) that
>utility !SetIcons to do such a job.  Now that Risc OS 3.10 is out, the
>application discs also have this proggy on it BUT without the 3D
>borders/buttons. So, I dug out my older copy and tried this and nothing!

I haven't tried this, but I suspect that a "*iconsprites" needs to be
changed into a "*toolsprites" command.  I would check this before I post,
but my machine is 80 miles away and has been for a fortnight.  I'm getting
withdrawal symptoms.


-- 
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    *********     the views of any past or present employers.    *********
From: S.Hickinbottom@lut.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: RISC-OS 3.10 Features
Date: 12 Oct 92 09:15:40 GMT
Reply-To: S.Hickinbottom@lut.ac.uk (Stuart Hickinbottom)
Distribution: uk
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.

Oops - forgot to include the article!

If you are quitting via a 'quit' menu option then this must be something
new. The problem of 3d buttons popping back up after the application has
Wimp_CloseDown'd is another problem which Acorn apparantly know about.

Stuart


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From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: A7000
Date: 12 Oct 92 13:50:11 GMT
Organization: Nottingham University

In article <Bw05o1.GG@brunel.ac.uk> cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk (Jason M Banham) writes:
>The new A3010 (apparently you have to pronounce it A three thousand and ten, 
>NOT A 30/10 !),  A3020, A4000 are all very nice but less powerful/expandable
>than what I have at the moment.

There is a whole list of "authorised pronunciations" which was issued by
Acorn recently. For example, it is the "A-three thousand and twenty", and
"RISC - Oh Ess Three" - NOT "RISC-OSS three" or even "RISC - Oh Ess Three
point one" (unless the distinction between 3.00 and 3.10 is important).

This is not a matter for flaming. It is right that Acorn should clarify how
they would wish these important words and phrases to be pronounced. Would
it be possible for somebody to post this document to Comp.sys.acorn - or is
it subject to a Non Disclosure Agreement :=) 

Simon B.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: mjw19@cl.cam.ac.uk (M.J. Williams)
Subject: Re: Sidney font...
Reply-To: MJW19@phx.cam.ac.uk (mjw19@cl.cam.ac.uk)
Organization: The National Society for the Inversion of Cudddly Tigers
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:26:27 GMT

In article <26882@castle.ed.ac.uk> ainsjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Steffan Corley) writes:
>1. Buy one. I suspect that the relevant font is called Sidney - but can
>I buy just this font? If so, does anyone know how much it costs, or
>where it can be purchased from?

As it is named after Sidney Sussex College it is an Acorn font, and can be got
from them.

However, speaking as a member of said college, I must say that I am just a
little bit miffed that Acorn deemed that it is worthy only of a Symbol and not
a "Proper" font. That said, however, seeing as the college's idea of an IT
strategy is to recommend modem dial-up to its members, perhaps it deserves it
8-).

Mike.
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From: wgt-a@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: C.S.A split
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:20:19 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England


 Ok, I've just returned from the summer vacation, and wish to know whether
comp.sys.acorn has split or not. If yes, then what are the names of the new
groups please, as I foolishly tidied up my directory at the end of the term,
deleting my polling reply.

Thanks a lot,

William

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From: espgl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr D Charalambakis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: A5000 Msync
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:23:48 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
NNTP-Posting-Host: spam.csv.warwick.ac.uk

THIS IS A PERSONAL POSTING FOR xxxxx@dcs.warwick.ac.uk

               Sorry for waisting b/w but I 've lost the usercode of the
person selling the A5000 Msync monitor in dcs at Warwick university.

               If you read this, please contact me so we can arrange demo,
'cause I 'm interested in buing it.

               Thanx, Jim.
From: lehors@celeste.inria.fr (Arnaud Le Hors)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: xdr / array of strings
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:31:07 GMT
Organization: Koala Project, Bull Research France

Well, my question is not especially related to mips but I didn't any better
place to post...

I'd like to send through RPC and array of strings but I can't find out the
right way to do this. In fact the problems appears to be in the xdr function,
clnt_call complains with the error message : "RPC: Can't encode arguments"

I would be pleased if some one could correct me or provide some working
example.
Thanks in advance.

Here is my code :

xdr_stuff -----------------------------------------------------------

struct select {
    char **params;
    unsigned short num_params;
};

int xdr_select(xdrsp, select)
XDR *xdrsp;
struct select *select;
{
    if (!xdr_u_short(xdrsp, &select->num_params))
        return (0);
    if (!xdr_array(xdrsp, &select->params, &select->num_params, MAX_PARAM,
		   UINT_MAX, xdr_wrapstring))
	return (0);
    return (1);
}

server code ----------------------------------------------------------

    struct select select;

    select.params = params;
    select.num_params = num_params;
    clnt_stat = clnt_call(client.connection, SERVERPROC_SELECTNODE,
			  xdr_select, select, NULL, NULL, no_timeout);
    if (clnt_stat != RPC_SUCCESS) {
	clnt_perror(client.connection, "select");
	return (1);
    }
}

client code ----------------------------------------------------------

    struct select select;

    select.params = NULL;
    if (!svc_getargs(transp, xdr_select, &select))
	fprintf(stderr, "can't decode select arg \n");

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From: anoosh@mips.com (Anoosh Hosseini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Sendmail.cf file for a UUCP machine
Date: 10 Oct 92 08:09:06 GMT
Organization: MIPS Technologies Inc. SGI.
NNTP-Posting-Host: wildcat.mti.sgi.com
Originator: anoosh@wildcat.mti.sgi.com

I am running RiscOs 5.0, with a uucp to an internet site
which serves as relay.  (basically all mail is sent up).
The current copy of sendmail.cf works, however it seems 
to have trouble handling the sender's address (incoming 
mail or pass through mail).  If you have a version thats 
works well I would appreciate a copy.

thanks,

-anoosh

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From: Bill_von_Hagen@transarc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: RS2030 wanted for parts
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:21:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: transarc.geotgNP0BwxTB2Zp9y
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I'm looking for a MIPS RS 2030 box, cpu and SCSI controllers only, to
use for parts to try and bring mine back to life.  I can't afford to
get my machine repaired, but have nothing to lose trying to swap parts
in from another system.  In case you've missed my recent stream of
posts, I managed to get the system up, but it crashes at random
points, and frequently, with a "data bus error".  

Any help would be appreciated, either pointing me towards the source
of the problem, or offering the carcas of another 2030 for parts.  

Thanks!  Any help would be appreciated.

    Bill
From: bobb@netcom.com (Bob Beaulieu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: WANTED 3240 and/or M/120
Keywords: Also Motherboard for 3240
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:35:19 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


I have a client that is SERIOUSLY interested in getting a 3240 or M/120 and
a motherboard spare for an existing 3240 he has. If you are plainning on 
selling any of these items, please let me know asap.

Thanks,

Bob Beaulieu
bobb@netcom.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
From: sgccrjh@citec.oz.au (Robert Howlett)
Subject: Problem with f77 2.20
Organization: CITEC
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:10:56 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I have just upgraded our RC3240 running Risc/OS 4.52 to fortran 2.20

I have had one of our programmers testing it, and while it seems to
work fine on small programs, he has one largish one (about 8000 lines)
which falls over at about line 6000 in the compilation with

Compiler error : cannot open intermediate file

This sort of message seems to be indicative of a problem with file space
or permissions, but none of the filesystems come close to filling up
while the compile is running, and compiling it as root gives the same
error, so it doesn't seem to be a permissions problem.

Anyone got any clues as to what is going wrong ?


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
From: rick@cxbne.cx.OZ.AU (Ulrich Mack)
Subject: Re: help me! how do i do remote backups?
Organization: Comperex Australia Pty Limited
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 08:42:53 GMT

chop_michael@tandem.com (Michael Chop) writes:

>Hello fellow mipsters,

>Has anybody out there been able to keep an Exabyte 8500 running with stability on a MIPS 3030?  I can do local dumps to the device, but recently (I've been able to do it before), if I try do do a remote shell dump from another machine, I'll send the machine into a panic from SCSI 4LO, and a really big dump file will be created.  The exact command executed on the backup server is listed below:

>rsh gretel 'dump 0dsuf  108000 6000 - /' | dd of=/dev/rmt/hc4 obs=16k

>I use this scheme instead of a 'rdump' for security reasons.  If I were to implement 'rdump', each machine would have to have an /etc/rhosts entry on the backup server.  By using the rsh command, each client has to have the backup server in their own /etc/rhosts.

>Anyways, if anyone has any ideas on why I'm sending my MIPS into a panic, I'd really like to hear from you (or read about).

>Thanks
>michael chop...

Exabyte provide a varety of firmware (gelware in flashram?) patches for the
8500 for different hardware platforms. Our patched 8500s work fine with m120s,
rc3x30s and VMEbus based mips platforms.

I can't give you the right rev numbers at present, but you should be able to
ask for your drive to be patched with the asynchronous patch for mips.

regards,

Ulrich Mack
rick@cxbne.cx.oz.au
COMPEREX Australia
From: pjinkila@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca (Paul Inkila)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: M120-5 gives 'Lance missed packet'
Keywords: LANCE M120-5
Date: 7 Oct 1992 13:12:54 GMT
Organization: Lakehead University; Thunder Bay, Ont

Our MIPS M120-5 running Risc OS 4.52 sporadically gives the error
'Lance missed packet' on its console.  The message gets repeated over
and over.  The system stays up but the Ethernet port is hung. i.e. unusable
I've been rebooting to reset the Ethernet controller.  

MIPS has replaced the motherboard with its on board Ethernet
controller, so I doubt its hardware related.

Has anyone else experienced this?  Any clues, pointers?

Paul Inkila			pjinkila@thunder.lakeheadu.ca
Lakehead U
From: mcb32@ztivax.UUCP (Peter Rohm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: RISC/os 5.01
Date: 9 Oct 92 05:44:10 GMT
Organization: Siemens A.G of Munich, Germany

Hi out there,
could someone give me some information about RISC/OS 5.01 (or 5.0.1), please?
I saw some news about it, but this was some time ago. And I couldn't follow,
because I was on holiday.

Main points are:
1. How long is it around?
2. What are the main differences to RISC/os 5.00?
3. Is it worth spending extra money?

Bye and thanks for listening
Wilfried Gaensheimer
P.S.: If you want to respond by email: Feel free to use either
mcb32@zfe.siemens.de or wig@hardy.hl.siemens.de
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