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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:06:51 -0400 
From: Robert Andrew Ryan <rr2b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: InfoExplorer Background Color
	<1992Sep14.170725.18037@dickens.com>

Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.aix: 14-Sep-92 Re: InfoExplorer
Background.. Luis P Caamano@dickens.c (1271)

> In article <Sep11.164832.20143@cdsac.uucp> scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott
> Emmons) writes:
> >In article <1992Sep10.172648.14252@dickens.com> lpc@dickens.com (Luis P
> Caamano) writes:
> >>Does anybody know what's the magic line to add to my .Xdefaults
> >>to change InfoExplorer text window background.  I've added 
> >>info*background*: but it only changes the menu bar background.
> >
> >Try:
> >
> >	info.background: <whatever>
> >

> That one worked!! Uhmm, I thought info*background: would've matched ...

Except that the main body (everything but the menubar) of the Info
Explorer windows don't use normal X resource parsing.  They read the
.Xdefaults file and parse it directly.  (I believe...)

-Rob Ryan

Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 19:04:33 -0400 
From: "James D. Zelenka" <jz1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Parallel make ?

Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.aix: 12-Sep-92 Parallel make ? Gary
White@inetg1.ARCO.C (292)

> Does anybody know of a parallel "make" for speeding up compiling
> of a pile of subroutines by using multiple machines?   

I believe gmake (GNU make) can do this...

-jim
jz1j@andrew.cmu.edu
From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: error in vnode.h?
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:28:57 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: /etc/organization


In article <42690@ogicse.ogi.edu> buchholz@ese.ese.ogi.edu (Don
Buchholz) writes:
>
> So what's with vnode.h?  Why does xlc choke on the syntax?
> xlccmp version is 1.02.0.6.
>
>	  xlc -c -DNLS -DANSI_C -DANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE get_filename.c
> "/usr/include/sys/vnode.h", line 55.9: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
> "/usr/include/sys/vnode.h", line 120.2: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.

You probably forgot to #include <sys/types.h>.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.questions,comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.x
From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Subject: Re: signal when window is destroyed
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 06:29:43 GMT

In article <3297@carroll1.cc.edu>, pwickman@cerebus.cc.edu (Paul J. Wickman) writes:

> What (if any) signal type is sent when a window is destroyed to the
> program running in it[?]

Depends on what you mean by "the program running in it".  It would also
help if you were more precise about what "destroyed" means, though in
this case I think I can probably guess.  "running in it" is similarly
vague.

> The program is an xterm exec-ing another program

You are probably thinking of "a window" from a user's perspective.
From that point of view, destroying a window amounts to making a
request of your window manager.  When you do this, no signal in the
technical UNIX sense is sent to the X client responsible for the
window.  Depending on the window manager and various other things, the
client may see the connection go away, or it may receive a request to
make its window disappear.  In neither case, though, does the event
take the form of a UNIX signal.

However, your comment about xterm makes it sound as though "running in
it" here does not refer to the X client, which would be xterm, but
rather to some process running connected to the pseudo-terminal xterm
has set up.  In this case, what *should* happen is that the virtual
terminal loses carrier, which usually generates a SIGHUP.  Whether this
actually happens, and if it does whether your program will see it,
depends on many factors.  Some systems don't seem to close down ptys
correctly to begin with, at least not always.  Even if the pty is shut
down correctly, your program may be running in the background and hence
not get the signal.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.novell,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
From: stritzi@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peer Stritzinger)
Subject: AIX 3.2 and LAN Workplace for DOS telnet
Keywords: aix lan workplace telnet vt200
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:18:09 GMT

I use Novell's LAN Workplace for DOS telnet to log into a RS/6000.

On a new machine running AIX 3.2 i get garbage on my screen. To be more
precise, I get newlines but no carriage returns.

I'm using the 8 bit vt200 emulation of tnvt.

Any ideas?

--
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Phone: +(49)8141-90613
Fax: +(49)8141-95235
Internet: stritzi@physik.tu-muenchen.de
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: root@tamuts.tamu.edu (Wally Strzelec)
Subject: Extending Filesystems
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:20:51 GMT


I just switched from 3.1.6 to 3.2 and now whenever I try to extend a
filesystem in smit, I get the following message:

0519-000 libodm: Cannot open the object class.
        Check path name and permissions.
0516-307 putlvodm: Unable to access Device Configuration
        Database.
0516-788 extendlv: Unable to extend logical volume.


I am su'ed, and I am not doing anything different then before, do I
have something messed up?  If so what and I do to fix it?

Wally Strzelec
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: dbrooks@penge.osf.org (David Brooks)
Subject: Re: legal issues with motif on RS/6000
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:09:42

tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell~) writes:

     My current understanding is that I can port anything I like, as long
   as I do not give away or sell the source code for motif, or give away or
   sell the object code or library of motif.

Yes, but now with an important proviso.

     I take this to mean that I can port any motif client I want, as long
   as I don't give away or sell motif.

     Is this the correct interpretation? Can I port any motif clients I
   want against the libraries on the RS/6000?

If the client is statically bound, you can ship it with no royalty
incurred.  However, if it uses Motif release 1.2 and up, the system on
which it will run must have been previously licensed for Motif.  This is
done by someone (possibly you) who holds a Full Distribution License and
ships a set of binaries for use on the system, with the binary royalty
payable.
--
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Open Software Foundation			uunet!osf.org!dbrooks
Four more months!  Four more months!
From: alhy@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu (J. Scott Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: stripped shared objects
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:15:01 GMT
Reply-To: alhy@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu
Organization: Stanford University, dept of Physics / SLAC

Consider two ways of using shared objects:

1) Create a shared object, and link it directly with your main program

    ld sub.o -o subshr.o -s -bE:sub.exp -bM:SRE -T512 -H512 -bh:4
    xlc main.c subshr.o -o main -s

This works great, even though the shared object is stripped.  It
apparently looks in the loader section to get the exported symbols and
finds them just fine.

2) Create a shared object, put it in a library, and use the -l flag to 
   include the library

    ld sub.o -o shrsub.o -s -bE:sub.exp -bM:SRE -T512 -H512 -bh:4
    ar cr libsub.a subshr.o
    xlc main.c -L. -lsub -o main -s

This bombs.  The last compilation says that subshr.o in libsub.a has
been stripped (which it has).  What I would like to have happen
(ideally) is that just as case 1) uses the loader section to find the
exported symbols, so should case 2).  Is there a way I can do this?

The reason that I want to do this is that I came up with this clever
idea when compiling a library that consisted of a LARGE number of
shared objects, and when I stripped them all before putting them in
the library, the library was about HALF its size!  It's a big library,
so this made me very happy, until I actually tried to use the library
and it bombed.  By default, I use -x instead of -s (to only keep
external symbols), but that doesn't seem to help as much.

Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thanks and God bless

				-Scott Berg

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Date: Sat,  5 Sep 1992 21:50:26 -0400 
From: Barry_Wolman@transarc.com
Subject: Re: AIX LVM Metadata Area

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: lopez@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Chris &)
Subject: Re: Making gcc-2.2.2 on RS6000
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:05:40 GMT

Tom McConnell (tmcconne@sedona.intel.com) wrote:
:
: [original problem statement deleted]
: 
:   You need the assembler patch.
: 
: From ./gcc-2.2.2/README.RS6000:
: 
:     ... Then call IBM Support
:     at 800-237-5511.  Ask for emergency shipment of the rs6000 AIX fix for
:     APAR IX22829.  They may ask you to verify that it's a fix for ".extern
:     foo conflicts with defining foo"; say yes.
: 
:     ... If you tell them you're running AIX version 3.2, you may be told that
:     no fix is available yet.  In fact the 3.15 fix works fine on version
:     3.2.  Talk them into shipping it to you anyway.

IBM now claims to have a 3.2 version of this patch.  Same APAR number
obviously, PTF U403044.

Chris Lopez
From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Problem with tn3270 .keys files.
Date: 15 Sep 92 10:53:39 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Hi All,

There are some lines in /etc/tn3270.keys that say:
...
# else if avt or avt-8p-s or avt-4p-s or avt-rv load /etc/avt.keys
# else if tvipt or vp or televideopt load /etc/tvipt.keys
# else if vt100 or vt100nam or pt100 or vt125 or vt102 or
#       direct831 or tek4125 or pcplot load /etc/vt100.keys
...
Does anyone have any ideas where the other .keys files may be found?
-- 
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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: xmodmap problems in AIX 3.2.2
Date: 14 Sep 92 04:46:20 GMT
Distribution: comp.unix.aix
Organization: /etc/organization


In article <HSG.92Sep12235034@macbeth.cs.duke.edu> hsg@cs.duke.edu
(Henry Greenside) writes:
>
> 1. Although I have verified that the xmodmap command is being
> executed when I start X, I find that the keymap changes are actually
> not being made, i.e., I have to go into an xterm window and run
> "xmodmap .Xmodmap-rs6000" directly. All other .xinitrc commands seem
> to run ok.

This question, or one similar, comes up frequently.  At the top of my
.xinitrc, I have the line:

  xterm -ut -geometry 1x1+1+1 -e sleep 60 &

Try it.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.windows.x
From: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell~)
Subject: legal issues with motif on RS/6000
Originator: tmcconne@sedona
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:21:17 GMT


  Howdy.

  I have been wondering, what are the legal implications of porting
motif applications using the motif libraries that came with the
RS/6000?

  My current understanding is that I can port anything I like, as long
as I do not give away or sell the source code for motif, or give away or
sell the object code or library of motif.

  In the "Master Software License Agreement Supplement" of the OSF for 
the "MOTIF User Environment", which you get when you purchase motif, 
it states in the Notes section:

  (1) There shall be no object code fee payable for use or distribution
     of "Run Time" copies of the Licensed Programs or the Developer's
     Toolkit.

    A "Run Time" copy is some application that was built using the 
motif libraries, but no other program can use that application to
get at the motif binaries (paraphrasing).

  I take this to mean that I can port any motif client I want, as long
as I don't give away or sell motif.

  Is this the correct interpretation? Can I port any motif clients I
want against the libraries on the RS/6000?

  Thanks for your time.

    Cheers,

    Tom McConnell
-- 
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 Intel, Corp. C3-91     |     Phone: (602)-554-8229
 5000 W. Chandler Blvd. | The opinions expressed are my own. No one in 
 Chandler, AZ  85226    | their right mind would claim them.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.os.os2.apps
From: tom@nds.com (Tom Williamson)
Subject: Re: Xtree for PM???
Reply-To: tom@nds.UUCP (Tom Williamson)
Organization: Northwest Digital Systems
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 20:32:49 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.151805.2907@nmt.edu> jreynold@nmt.edu (John Reynolds) writes:
>I recently saw an advertisement from the Xtree company for "Xtree for
>Windows." I haven't got this product, but swear by it's DOS counterpart
>(Xtree Gold 2.5). Does anyone know if they are planning to port their
>file manager to the PM????
>
>
>-Jr
>
As another VERY satisfied XTree Gold 2.5 user I can only say that I hope they 
do a version for os2.  I have been meaning to call them and voice an opinion.  
Perhaps we should mount a campaign.  In fact, I have used XTree since version 1 and have become a little rusty on the command line because of it.  Probably 
the most valuable utility program I have seen for DOS.  I am sure it would be 
for os2 also.

If I hear any news I will post to the net.

Tom Williamson
tom@nds.com
From: hhw0@harvey.gte.com (Hansel Wan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: tty help
Keywords: tty
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:27:52 GMT
Distribution: na


I need some help configuring a modem connected to S1 port of my RS6000.
That port was configured as /dev/tty0.

1). When I do a "stty add rts < /dev/tty0", it hangs.   A ctrl-C will
    generate an error message "/bin/ksh: /dev/tty0 cannot open".
    A "stty get < /dev/tty0" produces the same result.
    It seems that it hangs only occasionally but I don't know what make
    it hangs.  I am sure nobody is using the modem at the time the command
    is executed and It is the same way even if I log in as root.

2) Is there a way to add rts/cts discipline to a tty definition that would
   survive a cold boot?

3) I tried to send some "AT" modem control commands to the modem connected
   to tty0 by using "cu -ltty0".  But the system responsed with 
      Lost Carrier
      User defined signal 1
   Is there some parameter I did not set right?

Thanks in advance.

- Hansel (hhw0@gte.com)
From: rogers@norad (Rogers L Hellman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Austin Texas AIX User Group Meeting
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:10:40 GMT
Reply-To: rogers@pencom.com
Organization: Pencom Software


	
	The Austin AIX User Group will hold their next meeting Tuesday
	evening, September 15, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

	Representatives from 4 major database vendors will be there to
	present information on their products.  These firms are:

		Informix	 Ingress
		Oracle		 Sybase

	
	Please note that the place of the meetings has changed to
	a more convenient North Austin location:

		IBM  11501 Burnet Road.  BLD 904 
		Executive Briefing Center.

	Anyone interested in AIX and/or these database products are
	encouraged to attend.


--
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eine Chance geben!
From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: What Does IBMR2 Mean?
Keywords: IBMR2
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:23:57 GMT
Distribution: us
Organization: /etc/organization


In article <1992Sep14.124952.39716@watson.ibm.com> gerth@watson.ibm.com
writes:
>
> In article <1992Sep13.003615.21940@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>,
> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>> 
>> I don't know about 3.2, since I no longer have a machine running it
>> available, but under 3.2.1, `_AIX32' is defined.
>
> That's good news about _AIX32 (is it in /etc/xlc.cfg?).  Now I have
> to go and find out why my alleged 3.2.1 system doesn't have it.

Perhaps it was in a later release of XLC.  Here's my xlc.cfg, straight
from IBM.  The version number should give you enough info to track it
down if you really want to know.

-----8<-----snip-----8<-----snip-----8<-----snip-----8<-----snip-----8<-----
* @(#) xlc.cfg 1.2.1.2 8/7/92 19:23:20
*
* COMPONENT_NAME: (CC) AIX XL C Compiler/6000
*
* FUNCTIONS: C Configuration file
*
* ORIGINS: 27
*
* (C) COPYRIGHT International Business Machines Corp. 1989, 1990, 1991
* All Rights Reserved
* Licensed Materials - Property of IBM
*
* US Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or
* disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp.
*
 
* standard c compiler
xlc:    use        = DEFLT
        crt        = /lib/crt0.o
        mcrt       = /lib/mcrt0.o
        gcrt       = /lib/gcrt0.o
        libraries  = -lc
        proflibs   = -L/lib/profiled,-L/usr/lib/profiled
        options    = -H512,-T512,-D_ANSI_C_SOURCE,-qansialias
 
* standard c compiler aliased as cc
cc:     use        = DEFLT
        crt        = /lib/crt0.o
        mcrt       = /lib/mcrt0.o
        gcrt       = /lib/gcrt0.o
        libraries  = -lc
        proflibs   = -L/lib/profiled,-L/usr/lib/profiled
        options    = -H512,-T512,-qlanglvl=extended,-qnoro
 
 
* standard c compiler aliased as c89
c89:    use        = DEFLT
        crt        = /lib/crt0.o
        mcrt       = /lib/mcrt0.o
        gcrt       = /lib/gcrt0.o
        libraries  = -lc
        proflibs   = -L/lib/profiled,-L/usr/lib/profiled
        options    = -H512,-T512,-D_ANSI_C_SOURCE,-qansialias
 
 
* common definitions
DEFLT:  xlc        = /usr/lpp/xlc/bin/xlcentry
        as         = /bin/as
        ld         = /bin/ld
        options    = -D_IBMR2,-D_AIX,-D_AIX32,-bhalt:4
        ldopt      = "b:o:e:u:R:H:Y:Z:L:T:A:V:k:j:"
-----8<-----snip-----8<-----snip-----8<-----snip-----8<-----snip-----8<-----

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: hc05@rexago8.uucp (Beirne Konarski)
Subject: Re: AIX malloc and fault tolerance
Reply-To: beirnek@summitis.COM
Organization: Summit Information Systems
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 12:40:30 GMT

martelli@cadlab.sublink.org (Alex Martelli) writes:

>Yes, I know that a thousand clever tricks spring to mind to workaround
>one of the other of these problems, but believe me:  we must have tried
>at least 900 of them and they don't work.  We've spent more time and
>effort on battling this malloc() idiocy than on any other single porting
>problem EVER (and with the huge list of platforms we've supported over
>the years we've had quite SOME such problems, believe you me!)!!!  Most
>porting problems come from bugs in the target system, some from bugs in
>our code, but here we're fighting against something BROKEN AS DESIGNED
>-- ***HORRIBLY*** BROKEN.  I would say it's been half the cost of the
>IBM R/6000 port, if it weren't for the fact that the monstruously slow
>linker (thankfully remedied in 3.2, but this port was started right at
>system announcement...)  and the bugs in the early X have driven that
>cost way up.  Anyway, at the end, we've given up and just document to
>our customers how AND WHY their work may go up in smoke on IBM R/6000
>and not on DEC, Olivetti, Sun, HP, Sony or other platforms.

In other posting IBM has recommended setting MALLOCTYPE=3.1, saying this works
at runtime.  Have you tried this? If you did it work?
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch (Konrad Haedener)
Subject: Re: problem shutting down dataless 220 with AIX 3.2.2
Followup-To: <1992Sep12.153140.21913@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
Reply-To: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch
Organization: University of Berne
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 06:41:29 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.153140.21913@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, dedourek@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (John DeDourek) writes:
|> I have installed several dataless 220's with AIX 3.2.2.  When issuing
|> a
|>      shutdown -F
|> on the dataless machines, the machines appear to hang before getting
|> the halt completed.  The problem would appear that the network interfaces
|> are brought down (lo0 and en0) then a message appears that the tcpip
|> lock files will be removed, then a message that the nfs server is not
|> responding.
|> 
|> If indeed the lock files are removed after the network interfaces are
|> brought down, and these being dataless clients the lock files are
|> on the server, this would indeed pose a problem.
|> 
|> Known problem?  Known fix?
|> 
|> A call was made to IBM on Friday, but I am working the weekend in hopes
|> of getting a lab ready.
|> 
|> Thanks;
|> 
|> John DeDourek
|> dedourek@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
|> 

Have a look at /etc/tcp.clean: at the end of the file, you'll find a section
`# Bring down all network interfaces' which is executed just ahead of
`# Remove lock files'. That explains your shutdown hangs.
I have modified the code to bring down the network interfaces, i.e. I've
excluded the critical one from the list to be brought down.
-- 
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Institute for Physical Chemistry            FAX:   +41 31 65 44 99
University of Berne
Switzerland                                 haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch
From: abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: per-process table on RS6000
Date: 14 Sep 92 19:35:22 GMT
Organization: Purdue University

In article <203@kedeng.UUCP> kenc@kedeng.UUCP (Ken Cornetet) writes:
>How does one read the per-process (user) table under aix on a RS-6000 ?

Use the getuser() function.

	getuser(struct procinfo *p, int pn, void *u, int un)

	*p is a structure previously filled by getproc() and pn is its length.

	*u may be a userinfo or user structure -- its length, un, defines
	which it is.

The getproc function is defined as:

	getproc(struct procinfo *p, int np, int pn)

	*p may point to an array of procinfo structures.

	np is the number being requested.

	pn is the size of the one element of *p.

On can call getproc() with one element in *p and a request count of 0 to
acquire information about how many elements to allocate.  There is an
example of getproc() and getuser() usage in lsof. Obtain it via anonymous
ftp from j.cc.purdue.edu (128.210.9.2) in pucc/lsof.tar.Z (version 1) or
pucc/lsof2B/tar.Z (version 2 Beta).

One can also read the user area with readx().  Version 2 of lsof has
examples of reading the extended user area that way to get the loader
information.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: losburn@teal.csn.org (Lynn Osburn)
Subject: Re: >>> help - pcsim weirdness <<<
Keywords: pcsim aix rs/6000 terminal emulation
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:17:23 GMT

>I am talking to the rs/6000 with a vt100 over a serial line , and I'm
>wanting to run 'dos' under pcsim.  I've got a few programs loaded in
>and running properly (e.g. quicken 5.0), but on occasion, when I get
>back to the c:\ prompt, the cursor seems to have forgotten about my
>command line.

My experience (also using vt100 emulation): If you do a CLS, the prompt
returns, and will stay until screen is full and would (under native dos)
begin to scroll.  At that point, the cursor is gone, along with the prompt.
CLS restores 'till the next time.

We were unable to resolve whether the problem was with pcsim
(judged likely) or in the emulation.

-oz
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