HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gml4410@ggr.co.uk (Lack Mr G M)
Subject: Re: Command functions in C
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:00:35 GMT

> In article <9209111428.AA13498@uk0x06.ggr.gri.com>, you write:
> |> 
> |>      I  would  like to have a C program be a command function on Primos.
> |> Does anyone know how this can be done?
> |> 
> |>      Since   the   program  uses  I/O  and  argv/argc  it  has  to  load
> |> (ANSI_)CCMAIN, so do I have access to any of the  original  EPF  command
> |> arguments? 
> |> 
>    If you're willing to allow the program to be "fortran" and to use
> the Primos command line stuff, this is no problem.  I don't think that
> you can get to the EPF command structures if your program uses ccmain.

     As  I said, it *has* to use main(argc.  argv), so I can't make it a
"fortran" entrypoint. 

     However,  I  *do*  have an idea......  (unless someone else already
knows how to do it?). 

-------------------------- Gordon Lack ----------------------------------
The contents of this message *may* reflect my personal opinion.  They are
*not* intended to reflect those of my employer, or anyone else."

Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: PHIL.K@PBN45.Prime.COM (Phil Kumbatovic, Product Manager, PRIMOS x7696)
Subject: re: Re: Primes and Museums (was Re: The facts about prime and startrek TNG)
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 15:29:52 GMT

Subject: re: Re: Primes and Museums (was Re: The facts about prime and startrek TNG)
To:   Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
From: PJC@ukhayc.prime.com
Date: 08 Sep 92 15:53:48 UT
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM

I think you got ripped off paying $1198 for all the Start Trek Videos. In
the UK I only paid 9.99 pounds for 2 episodes which meant the whole lot
only cost me 399.60 UK pounds or approx $779! (Did you get both copies of
episode one, the all colour version and the mixed colour/black and white
one).


--- Reply by PHIL.K :

   Yeah, My wife says the same thing. I realized after a was half way
through collecting them that I could have bought them at the local store
for lots less. Well at least the cases are nice. I could have been worse,
I could have bought the episodes on laser disk.

   In answer to your question about episode 1 (pilot?) it's called 'The
Cage' and is partially in black and white because some of the original
scenes in color have been lost. Note: This episode was also used to make
the two-parter called 'Courtmartial' which I also have.

   Well, enough of this Star Trek stuff, I have to get back and finish
the contents list and FCS dates for PRIMOS rev 23.4 and 23.5.

                                        Phil,,,  (thump)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
Subject: Gnu TAR for PRIMOS
Summary: A new version of Gnu TAR for PRIMOS is available
Keywords: tar primos
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:51:55 GMT

I've just made available a new version of my port of Gnu TAR for PRIMOS.

It is available for anonymous FTP (and anonymous MAIL retrieval) from the
machine "ftp.lysator.liu.se" (130.236.254.1) in the directories:

  "pub/primos/run" as the file "gnu-tar.run.Z" (executable)

  "pub/primos/gnu" as the file "tar-1.10-3.tar.Z" (sources)

This version fixes some problems with the local tape drive support and
adds support for the RMT TCP/IP protocol to access remote tape drives
on UNIX machines. 

To get the files via email, send a letter to "ftpserv@lysator.liu.se",
subject is ignored, and with a body of:

  CD pub/primos/run
  UUSEND gnu-tar.run.Z
  QUIT

or:

  CD pub/primos/gnu
  UUSEND tar-1.10-3.tar.Z
  QUIT

You will need a port of UUDECODE to be able to unpack the email that will
be returned to you.

There is a port of UNCOMPRESS available in "pub/primos/run" that can be
used to uncompress the files ending in ".Z".

/Peter
--
Peter Eriksson                                              pen@lysator.liu.se
Lysator Academic Computer Society                 ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
University of Linkoping, Sweden                           I'm bored. Flame me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: BERT@DCS.Prime.COM (Bert Degenhart Drenth)
Subject: Problem with ANSI C
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:04:12 GMT



You muse typecast the return value to the type of the function.
I believe that that is not strictly required in ANSI, but the
PRIME compiler apparently thinks it is. Furhtermore : use new
stype function argument declarations !!!

/* mp.c - example routine to return a structure
/*        does nothing else of use.
/* */

#include <stdio.h>

typedef struct {
   int a;
   int b;
   int c;
   } Struct;


Struct *mp(int x, int y, int z)
{
   static Struct ms;

   if (x == y)
      return((Struct*)NULL);   /* You must cast the return value to its
                                  appropriate type */
   ms.a = x;
   ms.b = y;
   ms.c = z;

   return(&ms);
}
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: gml4410@ggr.co.uk (Lack Mr G M)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP recv()
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 10:06:40 GMT

> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 22:24:35 GMT
> From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
> Message-Id: <1580@lysator.liu.se>
> Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
> 
> When I do TUP$recv(fd, buf, 10240, 0) in my (well, Gnu TAR really)
> I get the error 'Invalid Argument' (or something like that).
> 
> (The 'fd' is a SOCK_STREAM connected to a remote UNIX machine).
> It works fine for lesser values (like 5120). This is pretty annoying...

     I'm  only  guessing,  but I suspect that TUP$recv checks the length
argument against the socket buffer-size.  Perhaps the default value  for
this is 8192 bytes??  (another guess). 

     You could try using:

short maxbuf;
maxbuf = 10240;
cc = TUP$setsocket(fp, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BUFSIZE, &maxbuf, sizeof(short));

to increase the socket buffer-size.  I've no idea what will happen...


-------------------------- Gordon Lack ----------------------------------
The contents of this message *may* reflect my personal opinion.  They are
*not* intended to reflect those of my employer, or anyone else."

Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: gadget@hsepm1.HSE.NL
Subject: The facts about prime and startrek TNG
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 07:15:56 GMT


 Well well well, i can see there aren't many trekkies or trekkers around on
 this list.

 We saw that traveller episode some weeks ago ( NO we don't live on the dark
 side of the moon , science fiction isn't big in holland ).

 The episode goes as follows:

 A engineer from starfleet gets ordered to the enterprise to update the warp
 drive because he is supposed to be the best mechanic around (WRONG!!).
 He is assisted by a man called the traveller, and this man is the one that
 gets the enterprise zapped to the other end of the universe where no man has
 gone before. Wesley (crushers kid) had nothing to do with it he only became
 friends with the traveller. The traveller saw that Wesley has special skills
 in handling time and space thinkies. I can't exactly remember were that prime
 demo fits in in the episode but i have a brochure from prime about four (4!!)
 deminsional drawings at home. I got that at a meeting held in 1987 in holland
 Prime was there with a graphics station on which a flight simulator was
 playing (NICE !!!!!!! i wanna have that too).

 So i hope we got that traveller thing straight now, i hope our TV station
 broadcasts the episode again ( that will probably happen in about ten years
 from now, knowing them and there way in handling fascinating science fiction
 series (yes we can still see the old StarTrek series here in holland)).
 So that i can tape the episode and keep it as a memory of Prime in there
 better days.

 Oh yeah one last thing, i visited the national space museum in holland and
 they showed a movie about computer satellite communication, and yes there
 was a Prime in it. I believe a Prime 9955, i was astonished to see that
 they chose a prime instead of an IBM who is the biggest sponser of the
 museum.

 Yes all is not lost.........( dutch for: we zijn nog niet alles kwijt)

 signed Jan Verhoeven     gadget @ hsepm1.hse.nl

 Gadget computerclub, the only computerclub with Primes.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: 0004439868@mcimail.com (Infocus Inc.)
Subject: Re- Icon '92 now '93
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:47:00 GMT

Attn: Info Prime
From: Lee Leitner
  Subject:
                                             Time:     Date:
  Re: Icon '92 now '93                                  2:25 PM   9/11/92
This is information for those PI users who wish more information about the
uniVerse Symposium (some of this information was omitted from the Icon Board
post):

Dates: October 18, 19, 20 with a Saturday intensive classes on Oct. 17.
Place: Denver Scanticon, Denver, CO
Registration Details: Call (215) 321-2200/ email infocus@mcimail.com

VMark is planning PI/open sessions at the symposium, and details will be known
early next week. We are expecting a large number of PI users to attend. 


Lee Leitner

Note: The above is not intended as a marketing pitch. Since the Icon post we
have received a number of calls of folks trying to find F&L's phone number/who
to call, etc.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: a.0013@VCC3.VCC.BC.CA (Jim Chivas  Vancouver Community College)
Subject: Usenet News
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:47:44 GMT

I have ask this before and was told that the software does not exist
under Primos.
Jim

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To:   Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:02:23 GMT
From: lou@yfn.ysu.edu (Lou Anschuetz)
Message-id: <1992Sep4.110223.3115@news.ysu.edu>
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
Subject: Usenet News
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM

If anyone is running usenet news on a prime (using the Prime OS),
could you please e-mail me and tell me where from whence I might
obtain the nntp and c-news (or its own variation) for this
machine/os?  Thanks in advance!

--
Lou Anschuetz, lou@yfn.ysu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: Toni@Blx-S.Prime.COM (Toni van de Wiel)
Subject: F77 anybody?
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Organization: PrimeService, De Meern, The Netherlands
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 13:02:36 GMT

Hi,

Ok, I admit, I'd rather be programming in C now, but sometimes you
don't really have a choice. Right now I am convicted to write something
in Fortran :(  I have been staring at the following code for several
hours now, but can't find what's wrong with it. (The same code in C
works perfectly ok... (as always))
Are there any F77 programmers left out there able to point me at my error?
Thanx...
++Toni;


      subroutine ww

      integer*2 v1(129), v2(129), code, match
      character*128 c1, c2
      equivalence (v1(2), c1), (v2(2), c2)

      c1= 'AB@@'
      v1(1)= 4
      c2= 'ABCDE'
      v2(1)= 5

      match= wild$(v1, v2, code)
      call ioa$('%v %v %d %d%.', 99, v1, v2, match, code)

      end


blx-s <TONI>F77 14:21:46
Ok: f77 ww -ints -32ix
[F77 T3.1-23.0]
0000 ERRORS [<WW> F77 Rev. T3.1-23.0]
blx-s <TONI>F77 14:22:01
Ok: bind -lo ww -li
[BIND T3.1-23.0]
BIND COMPLETE
blx-s <TONI>F77 14:22:12
Ok: r ww
AB@@ ABCDE 0 0     <-- fist zero should be anything *but* zero..?!
blx-s <TONI>F77 14:22:15
Ok: como -e
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: HENDER@morekypr
Subject: Star Trek
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:48:20 GMT

Phil (and others),

I believe the Star Trek: TNG episode in question (about the Traveller) is
called "Where no one has gone before".  The Prime system being discussed was
a "PXL" system.  I believe I heard that it was used to generate the warp
field images that Wesley and the Traveller were looking at in the engine
room.  (Oviously, I, too, am a big Star Trek fan).

The new season episodes begin airing Monday, Sept. 21 (most stations don't
show them until the following Friday or Saturday).  James Doohan (Scotty)
will be making a guest appearance in episode 5 or 6 (or somewhere
thereabouts) (YEAHHHHHH!!!!)

About the pilot episode (the cage), when they originally came out with the
video of it, all of the cuts not in the Menagerie were in B/W.  Since this
time, however, they have found copies of these cuts in color, so Paramount
came out with another copy of all color (I'm sure that Paramount's marketing
department had nothing to do with it, such as "Let's release a b/w version,
and tell 'em we lost the color, then a couple years later, we can say we
found 'em, and sell twice as many tapes!!!"   Maybe the same tactics
rumoured to have occured with IBM's match for the Laserjet IIP).

Drew
Morehead State University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: tim@shovel.Prime.COM (Tim Cantin)
Subject: Re: BASIC PROGRAM (loan pgm)
Organization: Prime Computer R&D
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:16:27 GMT

In article <9209081245.AA10338@usenet.rpi.edu>, R.KITTREDGE@MD-B.Prime.COM (Roland Kittredge) writes:
> DOES ANYONE OUT THERE HAVE A LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM, WRITTEN IN BASIC THAT I COULD USE.

Well, it's in C not BASIC, but it works. No, I didn't write it :)

-Tim

---

/* mort.c, author unknown (more like, "I forgot")
    mortgage ammortization program

to compile:
    ci mort.c
to link:
    bind -li ccmain -lo mort -li c_lib -li
to run (give no options for help)
    r mort
*/

#include <stdio.h>

main(argc, argv)
  int           argc;
  char **       argv;
{
  int           count;
  int           months;
  int           monthsToShow;
  int           years;
  double        amount;
  double        apr;
  double        balance;
  double        equity;
  double        interest;
  double        mpr;
  double        payment;
  double        pow();
  double        principle;
  double        temp;

  if (argc != 4 && argc != 5)
  {
    fprintf(stderr,
            "usage: %s amount($) apr(0..100) term(years) [ monthsToShow ]\n",
            argv[0]);
    exit(1);
  }

  sscanf(argv[1], "%lf", &amount);
  sscanf(argv[2], "%lf", &apr);
  sscanf(argv[3], "%d", &years);

  if (amount <= 0 ||
      apr <= 0 ||
      years <= 0)
  {
    fprintf(stderr, "%s: zero or negative values not allowed.\n", argv[0]);
    exit(1);
  }

  mpr    = apr/1200;    /* == (apr/100)/12 */
  months = years * 12;

  temp    = pow(mpr + 1.0, (double)months);
  payment = (amount * mpr * temp) /
            (temp - 1);

  printf("$%.2f at %.3f%% over %d years: $%.2f total, $%.2f monthly\n",
         amount,
         apr,
         years,
         payment * months,
         payment);

  if (argc == 4)
    exit(0);

  sscanf(argv[4], "%d", &monthsToShow);

  if (monthsToShow <= 0)
  {
    fprintf(stderr, "%s: zero or negative values not allowed.\n", argv[0]);
    exit(1);
  }

  if (monthsToShow > months)
    monthsToShow = months;

  puts("MONTH    PAYMENT    PRINCIPLE    INTEREST       BALANCE        EQUITY");

  for (count = 1, balance = amount, apr = apr/100, equity = 0;
       count <= monthsToShow;
       count++)
  {
    interest  = balance * apr / 12;
    principle = payment - interest;
    balance   = balance - principle;
    equity    = equity + principle;

    printf("%5d    %7.2f    %9.2f    %8.2f    %10.2f    %10.2f\n",
           count,
           payment,
           principle,
           interest,
           balance,
           equity);
  }

  exit(0);
}

-- 
#include "stddisclaimer.h"
/* Tim Cantin          {uunet, csnet-relay}!primerd!tim || tim@s35.prime.com
   Prime Computer Inc. 10-21, 500 Old Conn. Path, Framingham, MA 01701 (USA) */
flames > /dev/null 2>&1
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
Subject: TCP/IP recv()
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 22:24:35 GMT

When I do TUP$recv(fd, buf, 10240, 0) in my (well, Gnu TAR really)
I get the error 'Invalid Argument' (or something like that).

(The 'fd' is a SOCK_STREAM connected to a remote UNIX machine).
It works fine for lesser values (like 5120). This is pretty annoying...

What is the maximum limit that I can safely use in TUP$recv() ? The
manual doesn't say zilch about it (atleast I didn't find anything
about it). And it really shouldn't give me an error at all, since I
should be able to recv() any number I want to since it's a SOCK_STREAM...

Does the same limits apply to TUP$send()?

/Peter

--
Peter Eriksson                                              pen@lysator.liu.se
Lysator Academic Computer Society                 ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
University of Linkoping, Sweden                           I'm bored. Flame me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: Ted@CESCC.Bridgewater.EDU (Ted W. Flory)
Subject: re: F77 anybody?
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:05:25 GMT

All user defined functions obey the same implicit data typing defaults
as Fortran variables, so wild$ is assumed by the compiler to be real*4.
Declare wild$ to be integer*2 and I think your program will work.
 
Ted Flory
Bridgewater College
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: TS@CS-IND.Prime.COM
Subject: Re: what is the significance of 11001001 in "11001001"
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:04:14 GMT

god please no more roam systems.
i know what its like to pick up the pieces after a cpu crash.
 					
					haha
ted schafer scse prime service.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: GORMAN_B@prime1.lancashire-poly.ac.uk (Barry Gorman)
Subject: Command Functions in C
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:09:23 GMT

Gordon Lack asks about command functions in C......
At the moment you have to use the FORTRAN interface, and cannot use argc/argv.
I was working on a header file for the full EPF interface, can send you a
copy if you want. For an example (buggy imho) see the source for AMIIX at
Rev23. However, if Pr1me would be so kind as to send me the source for
CCMAIN and ANSI_CCMAIN then I could add (decent) support for command functions.
Some years ago I wrote a number of command functions in Pascal, and they have
worked without any problems since then.

Barry
.....
From: PHIL.K@PBN45.Prime.COM (Phil Kumbatovic, Product Manager, PRIMOS x7696)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
Subject: Re: Primes and Museums (was Re: The facts about prime and startrek TNG)
Date: 8 Sep 92 13:40:08 GMT
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM

Folks,,,

       There is a Prime 750, still functional and running rev 19.2 at
the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington. Coincidently, this
system is right down the hall from the Star Trek exhibit.

       To the gentleman who wants a copy of the STTNG episode, send me the
episode title and I will try to have a copy made here.  I believe that you
use the PAL system for tapes? If you can get a hold of a vhs playback
unit, I will send you a copy on tape. If not I will try to find an
appropriate playback unit here and copy to PAL or whatever.

       Note: I am a dyed in the wool Star Trek fan and have just finished
collecting all the Star Trek episodes (first series) and I am now starting
on the Next Generation, unless my wife finds out about it and shoots my
keester out a photon tube (the first series set of 80 episodes on 40 tapes
set me back about $1198.00 and change.

                                        Phil Kumbatovic
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: gml4410@ggr.co.uk (Lack Mr G M)
Subject: Problem with ANSI c (ci -ansi)
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:37:03 GMT

     Could  someone  please  explain  why  ci produces a warning for the
following code when I use the -ansi option? 

     Has anyone else seen the problem?

======================================================================
/* mp.c - example routine to return a structure
/*        does nothing else of use.
/* */

#include <stdio.h>

typedef struct {
   int a;
   int b;
   int c;
   } Struct;


Struct *mp(x, y, z)
   int x;
   int y;
   int z;
{
   static Struct ms;

   if (x == y)
      return(NULL);

   ms.a = x;
   ms.b = y;
   ms.c = z;

   return(&ms);
}
======================================================================

The compilations (with and without -ansi) are:

(D)Ok ci mp
[CI Rev. T3.1-23.0 Copyright (c) 1991, Prime Computer, Inc.]
[Serial #S03K-VKR15J-17E5 ()]
00 Errors and 00 Warnings detected in 29 lines and 184 include lines.
(D)Ok ren
  R-search: ci
(D)Ok ci mp -ansi
[CI Rev. T3.1-23.0 Copyright (c) 1991, Prime Computer, Inc.]
[Serial #S03K-VKR15J-17E5 ()]

Error# 1 on source line = 22 has severity Warning:
    return(((void *)0) );
                        ^
  This expression mixed usage of pointers pointing to simple types and
  complex types.

00 Errors and 01 Warning detected in 29 lines and 208 include lines.
(D)??(-1)!

======================================================================

     The   problem  is  that  I  do  *not*  want  to  have  warnings  in
production-code (and anyway it makes BUILD abort...) but  *do*  need  to
use  -ansi, as the code is actually used across several systems and this
makes for compatibility. 

     I  can't  see  why  the  message  is  produced.   It  seems to be a
complaint that I am trying to use "(void *) 0" as  a  return  value  for
"Struct *", but looking at K&R Edtn 2 (Secytion A6.6, p 198) I read:

> ... 
> An integral constant expression with value 0, or such an expression cast
> to type void *, may be converted,  by  a  cast,  by  assignment,  or  by
> comparison, to a pointer of any type.... 


   The *particularly* galling part is that if I use a straight 0 here in
place of NULL it doesn't complain..... 


-------------------------- Gordon Lack ----------------------------------
The contents of this message *may* reflect my personal opinion.  They are
*not* intended to reflect those of my employer, or anyone else."

Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward)
Subject: Re: nntp newsreader for PRIMOS - NPUG sponsored project ?
Reply-To: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward)
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 03:46:46 GMT

Urban Sundstrom writes
-> In the latest NPUG NEWS Volume 9, Number 1, September/October 1992,
-> on page 17, it says that NPUG has about $90,000 dollars in cash.
-> 
-> I think a good project to be sponsored is the development of
-> a nntp Newsreader program for PRIMOS. Interface like rrn
-> or some other well-known programs.
-> 
-> I think a normal site will store all the articles on an ordinary
-> UNIX computer and let a lot of different computers like PC's, Mac's
-> other UNIX computer's and VAX'es and so on be using some kind of
-> nntp client software, reading the articles from the UNIX computer.
-> 
-> We are developing such an environment for News in all our 
-> organization over a multiple remote TCP/IP 64 kbit connections,
-> linking a lot of LAN's together.
-> 
-> What do you think about it ?

I think I could write a Damn nice nntp based news reader for $90K
give me about 4 weeks and a usable 50 series...

shoot I'd do it for $10K 


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