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From: ncherry@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (neil j.cherry)
Subject: P2C
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:56:39 GMT

Does anyone use the p2c compiler, I've been using it for my wife to learn
PASCAL at college and now find I have problems getting command line parameters
passed to to the PASCAL code inside. Also anyone interested in a shell I wrote
to compile Pascal to C using p2c?

NJC

Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: forrie@morwyn.uucp (Forrie Aldrich)
Subject: Physical memory and Swap space (3b1)
Organization: Vision Graphics
			  Dover, NH
			  USA
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 16:10:39 GMT

I'm helping (by means of being a 'test-site') with a program port to SysV,
and namely the 3b1.  

We're having some peculiar problems, however.  When the program is first
called, it must load in/up a database (a good size of 864432) and initialize
several variables, etc.  This loading takes about an hour(!).  Next,
when the program runs, there is a lot of disk thrashing, and the program
runs a bit slow.

Here is what the author has to say:

| To: morwyn!root
| Subject: Re: Swap space
| Date: 	Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:08:32 PDT
|
| The reason for the `out of seconds' errors is, I believe, that for some reason
| the server is getting only a tiny fraction of the physical memory in the
|machine and that, therefore, it spends a lot of time getting the other pages of
| memory it needs off of the disk.  This slows down everything the server does
| and so brings every task closer to running out of seconds.
| 
| While speeding up the disk will help somewhat, the biggest problem is memory.
| It would appear that your kernel is taking up so much of the physical memory
| that there's not enough left over for efficient use by the server.  If you
| could somehow (I literally have no idea how) make more physical memory
|available to the server so that it didn't constantly thrash, the server's speed
| would be radically improved.  My guess is that this is the entire reason for
| it to take so long to load the core DB; it's thrashing the whole time.


Can someone help out here with this?  I would guess that eliminating some
processes would help, like UA and other hogs.  However, it was my understanding
that each process got a _virtual_memory_ of 4 meg.  The swap space here on
this machine is small, I'm sure (can't recall)... it was whatever was allotted
with the format done by the base-disk set.

This program is being ported to other SysV machines as well, but this is the
first problem like this that has arisen (to my knowledge).  The program
is called LambdaMOO (a multi-user oriented environment/virtual-reality-game,
hence the references to 'server'), for sake of reference.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Forrest

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From: ahh@glyph.kingston.ny.us (Andy Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: 3B1 FAQ needs an owner
Date: 9 Sep 92 04:35:26 GMT
Organization: Moji Computing


	I've gotten a number of replies on this, which is gratifying.
Some people are curious to know what has to be done to manage the list.

	What I do is read the group and look for suitable topics (everyone 
has his own idea of what a suitable topic is), and read mail sent from
concerned citizens.  Usually just before posting time, I'll check the FAQ 
file out of RCS, add questions and answers or correct existing questions, 
fix the spelling mistakes I inevitably find in other parts of the file 
(there's still at least one spelling mistake left -- can you find it?) 
and check the file back in when I'm done.

	I have a cron job that runs at the end of every other month, 
kicking off the automagic 3b1 faq-file poster.  This script checks the file
out into a temp file, numbers the items, splits the file in two, creates
the table of contents, sticks headers on the two parts, and then posts
the mess.  So ugly that I'm amazed it actually works.  It did barf this
month, but it's fixed now.

	That's about it.  If anyone has second thoughts, let me know.
I'll try to get this worked about by the weekend.

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  Andy Heffernan		$BJ8;z(J		uunet!glyph!ahh
From: trinh@FLUKY.MITRE.ORG (S. Trinh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: WANT: 20 or 40 meg MFM hard disk
Date: 8 Sep 92 21:41:24 GMT


Correction:

>PS. FYI, it will be a replacement for my PC7000 machine.
                                          ~~~~~

should be pc7300.

Thanks.
From: sandy47@cats.ucsc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Computer Horizons Prices
Date: 12 Sep 92 05:24:06 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


Just thought I'd pass along some information I recently received regarding
UNIXPC prices.  No suggestion to purchase this material nor recommendation
of the company is offered.  This information is for reference only.

	
				Larry

---

Computer Horizons - 6292 Busch Boulevard  Columbus, OH 43229

September Specials

UNIXPC 7300 w/20MB HD	$395
UNIXPC 3b1 w/40MB HD	$450
Ethernet board 		$195
Voice Power board	$150
DOS Co-processor board	$195
Mouse			 $50
Floppy			 $50
Monitor			 $50
UNIX 3.51 Foundation Set $99
UNIX 3.0 or 3.5 	FREE with purchase

614 847-0400
614 847-0080 FAX
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: kak@hico2.westmark.com (Kris A. Kugel)
Subject: Re: sc dumps core
Reply-To: kak2@hico2.westmark.com
Organization: High Country Software
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:57:19 GMT

Mark D. Crimmins (mdc@crux1.cit.cornell.edu) wrote:
: Does anyone have a diagnosis and/or solution for sc (version 6.8, as
: found on osu) dumping core on 3b1's?  It does this very frequently &
: ruins the usefulness of a very useful program (especially since one
: gets 32 lines with the small fonts at osu).
: 
: Thanks for any advice,
: Mark
: mdc@crux1.cit.cornell.edu

You need a more recent version than 6.8.
I don't remember where to get it,
but the latest version I know of is 6.19,
which doesn't have this problem.

Kris A. Kugel	908-842-2707
hico2!kak	kak@hico2.westmark.com
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Why does uucico panic?
Date: 14 Sep 92 02:25:04 GMT
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada

In article <88806@netnews.upenn.edu> kupiec@hp800.lasalle.edu (Bob Kupiec) writes:
>Just now (and once before about a month ago) my machine panicked after
>completing a uucico with an incoming feed.  This particular uucico is the
>one that is patched to run with 7 windows instead of the normal 3.  The
>uucico log said "OK (conversation complete tty000 270)" and then the
>machine died.

3.5, and indeed 3.5.1.4 had problems with the serial drivers, and in some
cases can crash quite often.  I've had it crash more than once a day.
One particular killer was when you invoked a curses-style application on the
console (or serial-connected terminal) that starts spitting lots of characters
just as the modem started dialing.  Ie: mush, rn, vi.

Pulse dialing makes it very frequent.

HDB makes the problem somewhat worse.

Upgrade to 3.51m.  I did in April, and I've not had *any* crashes since.
-- 
Chris Lewis; clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541
Psroff 3.0 info: psroff-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
Ferret list: ferret-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
From: marsella@athos.rutgers.edu (Stacy Marsella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: pcomm 2.0.1 and "working" icon
Date: 10 Sep 92 17:38:49 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I just recently installed the new pcomm (2.0.1) and noticed two
properties. It appears to be much "faster" than 1.2.8 - e.g.,
cating a file to the screen takes less time and running emacs remotely
is now less painful at 2400 baud.

However the att working icon's behavior has been reversed- it stays on
when nothing is happening and goes off, for instance, when I type. Does anyone
have an explanation for this? Is this related to the uipc code
that pcomm now uses? 

Stacy Marsella

marsella@cs.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold)
Subject: Re: Zmodem file transfers......
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:23:57 GMT

From article <1992Sep6.201128.24256@ceilidh.beartrack.com>, by dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.)):

> 	However, I usually use kermit for outgoing calls, since the systems
> which I am calling are more likely to support kermit than x/y/z-modem, and

I have tried ZMODEM under cu on a CTIX 6.4 platform, and it does not work
for outbound calls, as noted in the docs that came with it.

I use it regularly from MSDOS Kermit, using the GSZ package on the MSDOS
side, and the sz or rz on the UNIX side, now in a dialed-in mode, and it
works fine.  The GSZ package (SIMTEL) has some macros for Kermit use, but
there is a typo, in that %1 %2 is mangled to 1 2.

I don't use UNIX kermit in a dial-out mode, but perhaps it would be usable
as well, as a wrapper for sz/rz.

-- 
---
Clarence A Dold - dold@unislc.slc.Unisys.COM
               ...pyramid!ctnews!tsmiti!dold
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: haroldt@orion.yorku.ca
Subject: Help with EIA Combo board... What is cmbpcnt?
Organization: York University
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:48:07 GMT


Last night I installed the 1.5M Combo board in my 3B1 and had
some difficulty.

The first thing that happened was that I was getting parity 
errors.  When I tried to swap my Dos board (slot3) with my 
EIA board (slot2) I found that the Dos board would not 
fit (physically) into slot 2.  From this I'm assuming that
there is some damage to the pins in that slot.  With the 
Dos board in slot 1 and the EIA board in slot 3 I get the 
full 3.5Megs of memory :).

However... The software that came with the board for driving 
the additional two serial ports does not work.  It reaches
as far as the line (see /etc/lddrv/cmb.rc):
	/etc/lddrv/cmbpcnt -c

The above does not return within 5 minutes (I think it's hung).

What is cmbpcnt?  What does "-c" do?  What are other people
running to get the extra two ports working?

I manually loaded the cmb driver via "/etc/lddrv/lddrv -a cmb".
This loaded and allows Kermit to chat with the port (I hooked 
up a pc)  but my getty never allowed logins.

(Perhaps this should be in the FAQ, I didn't see it.)
From: jon%vector0.UUCP@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Dazed N. Confused)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Voice Power? (was Re: I'm still around..)
Date: 14 Sep 92 23:43:39 GMT
Organization: Vector Zero

dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.)) writes:

> 	What I *would* like to do with one of the 3B1s is to find a
> Voice-Poser card being offered, since I need to make a voice-mail type
> touch-tone maze for the Folklore Society's answering machine, since the
> outgoing messages are getting too long, and giving callers the ability to
> steer their way to the topics that interest them woulc be nice.

     The voice cards sound extremely powerful.  Can you list the
specs on them?  I mean, for $150, if you *are* getting a "real"
voice mailbox, that's a hell of a good deal.
     What exactly can the card do, what other stuff do you need, etc?
Sounds like a better deal than a fully featured answering machine
for a normal phone.

--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: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
Subject: Re: More info about my troublesome 3b1
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Distribution: na
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:18:15 PDT


I had a similar selection of slightly random hardware-seeming faults
after upgrading my 3b1 with vidpal and p5.1 upgrades.  They unnerved
me, but went away after I reseated all the chips and power supply leads
and drive cables two or three times, and haven't returned since.  (The
hard drive once had a period of failing 1-2 minutes after booting -
cured by disconnecting/reconnecting the *power* cable).  Presumably
an inevitable effect of machine ageing.

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: What's the 3b1 still have going for it?
From: rbunge@eis.calstate.edu (Russell K. Bunge)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:19:41 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) writes:
> 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................


Boyd-- I agree with you.  UNIX PC - 3B1 was ment to run twenty-four hours/day.
I have mine and a DOS 386 running off a Best 500W UPS.  The 3B1 has been
running this way for nearly 5 years.  Constant clean power is the secret.
Turning the 3B1 off when not in use and back on daily basis plays havoc
with the system software and hardware.    As for crashes, only when I do
something dumb, once or twice a year where the 3B1 is concerned.  In real
life, more often.  About a year ago I was collecting Hard Disk errors and 
spurious interrupts in the system log.  I called AT&T and their tech said
that the hard disk was getting some bad blocks and that I could fix this by
doing a backup of my user files; reformating the hard disk as to mark the
bad blocks; and then, restoring the system, applications, and user files.
Very time consuming.  But it worked.  AT&T NCR now provides hardware and
software maintenance for AT&T's line of old computers.
From: asoper@wyvern.twuug.com (Aubrey Soper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: CT-120 compatibility?
Keywords: 3b1, 7300, UNIX-PC
Date: 14 Sep 92 19:27:10 GMT
Organization: Tidewater UNIX Users Group


I recently obtained some interesting (binary) 
software for a CT-120 running CLIX/RLS 5.11
that I understood would run on a 3b1.  

Any enlightenment about the CT-120 cpu or
operating system would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.


-- 

aubrey
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From: kupiec@hp800.lasalle.edu (Bob Kupiec)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Why does uucico panic?
Date: 13 Sep 92 20:18:18 GMT
Organization: LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA

Just now (and once before about a month ago) my machine panicked after
completing a uucico with an incoming feed.  This particular uucico is the
one that is patched to run with 7 windows instead of the normal 3.  The
uucico log said "OK (conversation complete tty000 270)" and then the
machine died.

Here is the message:

"
		panic trap vector 11
type = 0xB, pid = 1, pc = 0xE50000, rps = 0x2400, p = 0x49D08
GSR = DD00, BSR0 = FC43, BSR1 = 0 PHYSPF = 30
D0 = 41676, D1 = 7F, D2 = 50, D3 = C0E
D4 = FFFFFC43, D5 = FFFF0000, D6 = DD00, D7 = 430000
A0 = 40B14, A1 = 24A04, A2 = FBA, A3 = E5000
A4 = 25EA4, A5 = 3000, A6 = 707EE, A7 = 2FFCD4

panic: trap
"

All I can make out of this is that pid 1 was init and that D0...D7 and
A0...A7 might be registers.  (BTW, I'm running v3.5)

Can anyone else clarify the other flags?  Was uucico the culprit?  Has
anyone else had problems with the patched HDB uucico?

-- 
\/\  Bob Kupiec - Amateur Radio: N3MML   UUCP: (Machine is down, please) /\/\/
/\/\   Internet: kupiec@hp800.lasalle.edu      (use INTERNET address.)  /\/\/\
\/\/\    LaSalle University, 20th St. & Olney Ave., Philadelphia, PA   /\/\/\/
/\/\/\     Self-Quote: "I'm MS-DOS free: never had it, never will."   /\/\/\/\
From: andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Andrew webster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: TI-99/4A
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 20:16:14 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

ti6hk@ap04.rz.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien - 3358 ) writes:

- Hello!
-  
- Something over my system...
-  
-         o  TI 99/4A with on board 32 KByte static RAM 16 bit  wide
-            and a built in (a lot of work) 80 character card with a
-            connected Mouse
-  
-         o 2 GRAM cards, each with 512 KByte
-  
-         o p-code but only PASCAL
-  
-         o 2 RS232 cards 
-         
-         o Triple-Tech with speechsynthesizer hooked on
-  
-         o Myarc  Harddiskcontroller  with  2 Harddisks in the back
-           The second I need for Backup's. This take only 1h30  for
-           30 MByte and not 12h with Floppydisks!
-  
-         
- I don't know if You imagine that a console in Germany yields $700 1983??
- Or that the p-code cost the same, XBasic $280??? Don't forget the time where 
- buyed my system. This justify the price I payed for it. The $7000 is the sum
- I payed over years. Today is everything much cheaper. If I would have the mon
- now I would look for a sun...(I know some money is missing).
- I think this is the reason why in Germany only some people exists using TI.
- I could write a book about the circumstances getting a Harddiskcontroller fro
- the US! I don't know the price in the US, I buyed it via the Netherlands. I
- payed for it 600.- DM (or $400) 1989. 
- In the whole sum there is nothing periphal included, no monitor, no printer 
- only one original floppy which I trashed. The complete system over all
- including every periphal hit $10000. And that's the reason why I won't give u
- my TI!!! He was to expensive to sold or to trash! 
- 
- Henry
- 
- 
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- mail-address   :  Dipl.-Inform. Henry Koplien
-                   Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg
-                   Martin-Leuschel-Ring 16
-                   2100 Hamburg 90
-  
- Telephone      :  040 / 7718-3358   
- Fax            :  n.a.              
-  
- e-mail         :  koplien@rztsun.tu-harburg.dbp.de
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

__________________________________________________________________________

Well Henry, with all that invested in your TI, I think you owe it to 
yourself to give out much details of your system. Talk first about your 
Gram/grom at 1 meg. Tell how you installed an 80 charactor device in your 
system, the type, chip used etc..
At that price, I would be telling the world. I couldn't contain myself!!
later Henry.

Andrew webster              andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: mah@cs.UAlberta.CA (Dean S. Mah)
Subject: DL'ing from Unix
Keywords: Unix,downloading,TI
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:28:43 GMT

  Has anyone had any success downloading files from a Unix system? If so
  could they give me details on how they did it. I've tried using
  xmodem, which I think is the local variant of sx, but when I try to
  use Telco X/Y/T protocals to download I always get block errors in 2's
  (ie. 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, ..) and then transfer is aborted. 

  Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
   


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: lenin@wam.umd.edu (Alberto Alejandro Perez-Pulido)
Subject: things for sale
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 06:12:40 GMT

I have an expansion unit, a sssd drive, the disk controler a printer
2oysticks and a tI 99/4a for sale.
I bought this about 2 months ago, and I moved to a smaller apartment and
I have no place to put it.
make me an offer with shipping included. Everything was working last time
I tried it.
everithing in exellent condition. (some of the pieces have original packing)

Alec Perez

-- 
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Aperez@umdacc.umd.edu                 Queen Laffresia (SP Harlock)   
Lenin@wam.umd.edu                                 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: TI 99/4A video pinout needed
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:50:27 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.160445.19361@afit.af.mil>, cawright@afit.af.mil (Chester A. Wright) writes:
>drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice) writes:
>
>I couldn't find my original pinout, but this is the wiring diagram of the cable
>I've been using for the past 5+ years.  One end of the cable is a male din plug

>

>I used a male-male phono cord, cut it in half, and made these connections to
>There is no connection to pin ...

You are using two different grounds here, but if it works it's fine...
The pin you are not using supplies 12V DC for the RF modulator.

I wondered if anybody has found a use for the 12V supply when using a monitor.
It is just sitting there, a wasted potential!

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: cawright@afit.af.mil (Chester A. Wright)
Subject: Re: TI 99/4A video pinout needed
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:04:45 GMT

drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice) writes:

>I recently obtained a TI-99/4A and need the pinout diagram for the video
>output.  I am unable to find an adapter and am going to build my own if
>I get the info.

>Thanks.

>--
>D. Keith Rice -- University of North Texas -- drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>(new .sig construction delayed due to union contract disputes)

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

I couldn't find my original pinout, but this is the wiring diagram of the cable
I've been using for the past 5+ years.  One end of the cable is a male din plug
and this is how it was numbered on the plug itself.

           Male Din Plug
          ________________
         /        2       \
        /     5   o   4    \
       /  3   o       o   1  \
      |   o               o   |
       \                     /
        \                   /
         \_______/\_______/

I used a male-male phono cord, cut it in half, and made these connections to
the din plug.  There is no connection to pin 1.  This cable will work for a
monitor/TV with audio and video inputs.  For a regular TV, you'll have to 
get a modulator.

              Audio       Video
              __5__       __2__
             /  3  \     /  4  \
            |   o   |   |   o   |
             \_____/     \_____/


Hope this helps!


chet
:-)