HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Re: SunSpot ascii magazine?
Organization: Inland Sea
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 13:05:52 GMT

ninja@halcyon.com (Jonathan Roy) writes:

>I was browseing the GEnie UNIX RT tonight, and found a series
>of electronic newletters called SunSpot that deal with Sun computers...
>Does anyone know about this newletter/magazine? Is it still active? 
>Are there any FTP sites? Archie wasn't a help locating a source...

SunSpots died long ago.  It is now comp.sys.sun.*.  There used to
be an archive of back issues at titan.rice.edu, may still be.
-- 
 "When Dexter's on the Internet, can Hell be far behind?"
		-- Steve Simmons, scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.misc:3945 comp.unix.programmer:4457
From: ravikm@austin.ibm.com (Ravi K Mandava)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Yet another /dev/fd driver implementation
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:25:45 GMT
Reply-To: piobe!ravikm@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Austin
Originator: ravikm@piobe.austin.ibm.com


In article <mcook.714759974@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com>, mcook@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com (Michael Cook) writes:
> The times I've wished I had /dev/stderr were when I was trying to get my AWK
> scripts to send their error messages to stderr.
> 	print "you goofed" > "/dev/stderr"

BTW, you can send messages to stderr in awk with this:
	print "you goofed" | "/bin/cat 1>&2"

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Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.misc:3984 comp.lang.c:12907
From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Strange error in C compiler
Keywords: dynamic linking C compilation constant pointer
Date: 28 Aug 92 10:26:27 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

[ quotes have been reformatted for brevity --liw ]

leo@ipmce.su asks why this doesn't work:
>extern _DYNAMIC[];
>main() { if (_DYNAMIC) puts("Dynamic"); else puts("Static"); }

but replacing the test with ``if (_DYNAMIC != (int*) 0)'' works.

One guess: Since you have declared _DYNAMIC as an array, and no data
object can have the address NULL, the compiler may have optimized away
the test, because its value is always known to be true:

	if (_DYNAMIC)
		puts("Dynamic");
	else
		puts("Static");

becomes after some analysis the same as:

	if (1)
		puts("Dynamic");
	else
		puts("Static");

I do not know why the second case worked.  Perhaps your optimizer is
less than perfect?

Maybe _DYNAMIC should have been a pointer, or an int?

--
Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: grant@bluemoon.rn.com (Grant DeLorean)
Subject: OW3 and Xterm
Organization: Blue Moon
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 22:04:25 GMT

 I have noticed that when using an xterm rather than a shelltool
under OW3 that the xterm will only see the numeric keypad as cursor
keys and not as a number pad. This is with the num lock set or not,
though the xterm menus are disabled if num lock is set.

 Am I missing something obvious, or will the xterm that came with
OW3 not allow a number pad to be used as a number pad? It works
either way (number pad or cursor pad) under ISC UNIX (ISC's X11
or the MetroLink replacement). I'd hate to think that my SPARC 2
was behind my old 486 somehow...

 (might as well respond here, mail to me is weirded out right now)

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From: brett@iitinc.uucp (Brett Coon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Help!  Extra mouse pointer!
Keywords: Sparc, cursor, annoying, frustrating, death
Date: 2 Sep 92 02:28:32 GMT
Organization: Integrated Information Tech.

I recently starting running Motif on my Sparc 1+, but I am  being
plagued by an extra mouse cursor that is stuck in the lower right
portion of the screen.  Motif seems to work fine,  using  a  dif-
ferent  cursor, but it's annoying to have that little black arrow
in front of everything.  The only way I have been able to move it
is  by  running Sunview, which then takes control of this cursor.
Unfortunately, when I exit Sunview, the  cursor  remains  in  its
last position on the screen.

I assume the Sun has a hardware cursor  that  should  be  getting
reset.  Is there a program I can run to correct this annoyance?

Please reply via e-mail.  If people are interested,  I  can  post
the winning cursor extermination technique.

-brett

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From: carl@crazyman.med.ge.com (Carl Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: cc -O2 bug in 4.1.1
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:39:17 GMT
Reply-To: carl@crazyman.med.ge.com (Carl Crawford)
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee,  WI


on pgae 99 of the release notes for 4.1.1, a bug is described for
cc -O2. i fix is proposed on the following page using -Qoption -O~M.
i have a couple of questions: 1) when do you need to run the 
fix? is the bug fixed yet? if so is there a patch? what does the
-O~M switch do?
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GE Medical Systems	   Fax: 414-521-6575
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: thomas@duteca.et.tudelft.nl (Thomas Okken)
Subject: x_soundtool won't iconify properly
Originator: thomas@duteca.et.tudelft.nl
Reply-To: thomas@duteca.et.tudelft.nl (Thomas Okken)
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 20:06:34 GMT

I have an annoying problem with x_soundtool: when I try to iconify it, it
disappears - it is still there, and I can get it back with the TWM Windows
menu, but the icon is nowhere to be seen. This problem does not occur with
x_gaintool.
My setup: Sun IPC (sun4/sun4c), SunOS 4.1.1b, and the X11R5pl3 binaries from
the GNU/X11R5 CD-ROM, using twm as the window manager. Checking x_soundtool
with ldd(1) gives:

        -lxview.3 => /usr/lib/libxview.so.3.0
        -lpixrect.2 => /usr/lib/libpixrect.so.2.11
        -ldl.1 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.1.0
        -lolgx.3 => /usr/lib/libolgx.so.3.0
        -lX.1 => /usr/lib/libX.so.1.0
        -lc.1 => /usr/lib/libc.so.1.6

libX.so.1.0 is a symlink to libX11.so.4.10 from the GNU/X11R5 CD-ROM; the
others, and x_soundtool itself, come straight from the SunOS 4.1.1b CD-ROM.
Note that I do not use OpenWindows; I just installed the OW libraries in /lib
so I can run DeskSet utilities under X11R5.

Any insights would be greatly apprectiated.
Thanks in advance!

 - Thomas.
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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: NCSA telnet to SUN goes to sleep
Date: 26 Aug 1992 18:46:38 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <1992Aug26.043255.3898@engage.pko.dec.com> richard@adomcc.enet.dec.com (Richard Munn) writes:
>Looking through the source code to NCSA telnet,there is a curious
>comments in the bit of code that handles ACKs. It basically says that we
>may get more ACK's than packets sent because of:
>
>"4.2's habit of sending those damn keepalive packets out everywhere."
>		     
>I assume it is referring to BSD 4.2. I know that NCSA telnet never
>sends out 'keepalive packets' and as far as I know, a keepalive is not
>required to keep a session open.
>
>Just to test this out, I fired off a script that pinged the PC every minute
>and sure enough, the session never went to sleep.
>	    
>My question then is, does anyone know if SUN-OS requires a keepalive
>packet to be sent out every so often ?

It's not a system requirement, it's an option that the system provides to
applications, and the SunOS telnet daemon uses this option.  It allows it
to detect when the client machine has crashed, so that it can close the
connection.

However, if this is causing NCSA Telnet to go to sleep, then the problem is
probably in NCSA Telnet.  A correct TCP implementation shouldn't have to do
anything special to handle keepalive packets, since they're just ordinary
packets.  If it's not acknowledging them then it's a bug.

I don't understand why sending pings prevents this.  ICMP Echo packets
should be transparent to TCP applications.  Seems to me that NCSA Telnet
has some serious modularity problems if pings affect telnet sessions.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
From: stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: rpc.solved: RPC: Unknown host
Date: 31 Aug 92 22:19:36 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center

We just did a minimum installation of sunsolve (the quarterly
cd of suns' obd, patch descriptions, solutions to common problems,
etc).  We can browse the documents using the docviewer, but
the searchtool always fails with "server not responding".
Coincidently, rpc.solved complains with "RPC: Unknown host".
Sound familiar?

Thanks,

-- 
Ron Stanonik
stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil
ucsd!nprdc!stanonik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: dmacneil@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: PC-NFS4.0a and AccPac
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:15:05 GMT

I'm having problems getting an accounting program called
AccPac (Computer Associates Ltd.) to run properly with
PC-NFS 4.0a and a SunSparc2 server.

Is anybody else using this program with PC-NFS 4.0a?

My specific problem seems to be with file locking and
sharing. AccPac does not support PC-NFS directly so
I'm caught in a bit af a void.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Specifically with
directory protections on the SunSparc and the DOS setup on
the PC end.

Thanks.

-----------------------------------------------------------
David MacNeil
St.John's, Newfoundland, Canada
dmacneil@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: horne@birch35.cray.com (Billy Jean Horne)
Subject: Re: what is halt_and_catch_fire?
Originator: horne@birch35
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 27 Aug 92 07:58:18 CDT


RLP Rewind the Line Printer may not have been a legitimate
mneumonic but it was a great way to generate an interrupt
or create an error condition to test.  Insert a Rewind
instruction with the numeric designator for the printer
or punch and you've got your interrupt.

An early machine I worked on had a JSR instruction (for
real) Jump or Skip at Random, the only problem was you had
to let the engineers know 24 hours in advance before you
were going to use the instruction so they could make
sure the instruction was working correctly (not a part of
the regular maintenance).
B.J.Horne
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Re: Sources for Third Party Sun Software/Hardware Maintainance Support??
Organization: Inland Sea
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 11:37:46 GMT

reetz@news.colorado.edu (Mike Reetz) writes:

>Does anyone know of sources for support (besides Sun's) on Software and
>Hardware (mostly Software)??

You're pretty much hosed as far as the OS, OpenWin, etc is concerned
(ie, everything that's "proprietary" Sun).  Sun doesn't give anybody the
right to resell SunOS except the vendors of SPARC clones, and I believe
they only support their own products.

If you want to "go naked" it's not a bad situation as long as you don't
want OpenWindows.  Get nekkid X, or buy Motif if you need a fancy GUI.
Most other standard UNIX tools are available from FSF.  You can get
basic X and the FSF tools prebuilt on a CD-ROM from the Sun user group.

Remember, you can't get new versions (upgrades) of SunOS without
a licence.  If you upgrade regularly it's might be cost-effective to
buy a S/W maintentance contract.
-- 
 "When Dexter's on the Internet, can Hell be far behind?"
		-- Steve Simmons, scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Subject: Re: Too much memory
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:50:04 GMT

holen@xilinx.com (Victor A. Holen ) writes:

>Well, never too much memory, but:

>Is there a way to tell SunOS to pretend it has less physical memory
>then it has ? (Without yanking the chips).

>Lets say I have 32Mb in my sparc-2 sun, but I would like to test the 
>performance of a program in a 16 Mb configuration.  Any [reasonable] 
>sugestions ?    Thanks.

adb -w -k /vmunix /dev/mem
physmem/X
_physmem:	xxxxx  (physical memory in pages)
physmem?W <half of reported value>
^D

and reboot.
This cuts the number of pages the kernel that thinks available in half.

You might want to save the kernel before you do this.
Rebooting is necessary.

Casper
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: jim@b11.b11.ingr.com (Jim Levie)
Subject: Re: Island Write/paint/draw
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 03:35:30 GMT

gws@gwssun.att.com (Gary Sanders) writes:


>Has anyone been able to import tiff images into Island Draw that were
>not generated by Island? I have attempted to import over 50 different
>images into Island Draw and always get a file format error. 
>I have tried 5 different tiff sample file from various dos machines, 
>with "NEXT" tiff files and a couple of font conversion programs and 
>almost every file is unusable.  A call to island yeilded little info. 
>They use tiff V3 and dont support any previous tiff formats.

>Anyone  have a early tiff to Island tiff conversion program.

Well, I've had good success converting the "old" tiff image into pnm format
and then converting that back to tiff (using PBMplus).

>-- 
>Gary W. Sanders (N8EMR)
>gary.w.sanders@att.com		
>AT&T Bell Labs 
>614-860-5965 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: bryant@ced.utah.edu (Bryant Eastham,MEB 3116,581-5353)
Subject: calendar manager
Reply-To: bryant@ced.utah.edu
Organization: Center for Engineering Design
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 22:43:29 GMT


Hello! My name is Bryant Eastham and I work at the
University of Utah. I have been trying to interface
with Sun's calendar manager program and not having
much success. I am very surprised at the limited
access that they give (cm_insert, cm_delete and
cm_lookup). For this reason I set out to find a
better interface. What I have may be of interest
to people on the net.

I have decoded the communications between calendar
manager and the daemon and have the XDR interface,
as well as a (limited) set of routines for talking
straight to the daemon. I have tested some of these
already and am working on more. They work.

My reason for posting is two-fold:

   1) I wonder if others are interested in what
      I have done. I am willing to freely distribute
      the basic information - I obtained it using
      tools available to anyone and without any
      help from Sun. As far as I know there should
      be no problem distributing it.

   2) I'm interested in command line options (and
      programs) that people think would be usefull
      for interfacing with calendar manager. For
      example, my cm_lookup program would have
      arguments like:

        -k -> Search for key match.
        -r date date -> Date range search
        -w string -> Search for string in description
        -a -> find only appointments
        -A -> find only uncompleted appointments

       etc., etc., etc.

      I am interested in what options people would
      think usefull.

Please respond via E-mail. I hope to have enough
program support to allow such things as:

   A program that moves appointments forward
     if not completed and deletes them if
     they are completed.

   A MUCH more generic search program.

   An insert program that allows you to insert
     repeating events and change the other
     options.

   Etc., etc., etc.

Thanks for your input,

Bryant Eastham
System Administrator/Programmer
Center for Engineering Design
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT  84102
(801) 581-6499
bryant@ced.utah.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: wolf@mt.att.com (Thomas Wolf)
Subject: openwin and DISPLAY
Reply-To: wolf@mt.att.com
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:18:11 GMT

This is probably a FAQ: Why does the openwin script overwrite the DISPLAY
variable with its own ":0"?  An application I'm running under OW3.0 needs
to have at least "unix" or a hostname in that variable.  What's the simplest
solution to retaining the variable?

Thnx,
Tom


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From: eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Mathematica on SPARC?
Date: 4 Sep 92 19:48:43 GMT
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Hi Folks,
I'm starting a research position at a lab that uses Suns.
My previous work has been mainly Mathematica stuff with some
C and FORTRAN on PCs and a NeXT.

I am sure that Mathematica is available for SPARCs, but is
it the best manipulator for this platform? On the NeXT Mathematica
uses a 'notebook' interface which is quite nice, but I do not
believe this is available on Sun's machines.

Is there a better manipulator (such as Maple, MathCAD etc) for 
Open Windows 3 or Solaris?                             

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Eric
Johns Hopkins / NIST Boulder Labs
From: maine@net.com (Dennis J. W. Maine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: Mailtool - Custom Fields in Properties->compose window
Keywords: mail mailtool custom compose
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:48:26 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Network Equipment Technologies, Redwood City
Originator: maine@maine

In article <1992Aug5.165713.547@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> jpd@discovery.msu.edu writes:
>I have created a custom field to carbon copy all mail to myself like:
>
>CC: jpd
>
>But it will not come up when I compose, I have to either 
>
>delete cc then add cc
>
>or just type in jpd in the CC field.
>
>Am I missing something or is this just another brain-dead sun thing??

You might try the following (in your .mailrc) instead of cc...

	set outfolder
	set folder=/maine/mail
	set record=!Outbox

everything you send will be put into the mail folder /maine/mail/!Outbox.
Make sure you check !Outbox often to resort to another folder or delete
what you don't need.  A subtle difference is that the cc line wouldn`t
be sent. I usually  delete that line for replies if it only contains the 
sender.

Hope that helps,
  Dennis J. W. Maine, Principal Engineer in Software Technology 
  IDNX Operating Systems Department, Network Systems Division
  800 Saginaw Drive, Redwood City, CA. 94063 (mailstop 24.1.2)
  VoiceMail	:(415) 780-5965
  FaxMail	:(415) 780-5004
  EMail		:maine@net.com 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.windows.open-look
From: cptully@med.unc.edu (Christopher P. Tully,Pathology,62699)
Subject: Re: Save Workspace doesn't save everything
Reply-To: cptully@med.unc.edu
Organization: UNC-CH School of Medicine
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:35:55 GMT

In article 20839@cas.org, lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:

{deleted for berevity}
>the net relating to X or OpenWindows?  Isn't there a $HOME file which contains
>the icon coordinates for the wastebasket?
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>Personal: 674 Falls Place,   Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1614
>America Online: lvirden@aol.com

The waste basket has a mind of its own!  I generally find the c shell 
a far more useful and usable file management tool than filemanager in 
general.

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From: davet@granta.uchicago.edu (David Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: Godzilla parallel processing for sun networks?
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:29:41 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago, Astronomy and Astrophysics

In article <17hrerINNt1n@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) writes:
>
>	Is anyone familiar with a program called godzilla for parallel
>processing on sun networks?  I saw a mention of this in an article in the
>san jose mercury news a few days ago.  I had previously read about the same
>sort of app with the same name running on nexts.

	I haven't seen the package you mention, but if you're interested
in parallel processing on (homogeneous or heterogeneous) networks you may
be interested in PVM.  It's available from netlib.  (Send a message to
netlib@ornl.gov with the subject "help" for details).
-- 
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davet@oddjob.uchicago.edu           Astronomy and Astrophysics
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin J. Duerst)
Subject: Server bug with dashed XORed lines
Keywords: X11/NeWS, color screen
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 16:29:30 GMT


The X11/NeWS server seems to have a problem with the XORing of
dashed (both OnOffDash and DoubleDash) lines requested by an
X client on color (8bit) screens. When XOR is used to give
feedback while moving or resizing a dashed line, the second
drawing of the line doesn't erase the first, and the lines
remain in the window as garbage.

The problem was discovered when using the Garnet interface toolkit
from CMU under Allegro Common Lisp, and the was traced down to
CLX and then to the server. XORing works correctly for other objects
like rectangles, for solid lines, on black-and-white (1bit) screens
and with the MIT X11R5 server.

My questions: Is this a known problem? Is there a fix or a workaround?
What will be done about this?

Many thanks in advance for any useful hints.

Martin J. Du"rst.

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