HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: scott@gorzarg5.phy.bnl.gov (david scott coburn)
Subject: Solved: 8514/ATI Graphics Ultra support for ISC UNIX SVR3.2
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:09:41 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.160631.4252@bnlux1.bnl.gov> I write:
> 
> I am running SunSoft's Interactive UNIX SVR3.2 V3.0 with their
> X11R4 V2.0.  I am having trouble get more than 800x600x16 resolution
> from the supplied Xgp video driver.  When I configure for the IBM
> 8514 card at 1024x768x256 resolution (at _43Hz_ refresh, gag), the
> screen looks _horrible_.  I have a NEC 5FG monitor and an ATI Graphics
> Ultra video board.
> 
> Does anybody out there know if SunSoft supports or will support
> the ATI Graphics Ultra video board with this Xgp driver?

Thanks to all of the helpful people who responded to my post.  I
now have a working 1024x768x256 X11R4 (Yay!).

The fix I used was to configure the power-up settings in the ATI
Ultra's EEPROM, setting it for 8514/A and 16bit data paths (using
the MSDOS 'install' program that came with the card).  It works
great now.

I suppose that this was necessary because the board was _emulating_
the IBM 8514 board, so the software was not expecting to have to
configure it for 8514 mode.  Yes?  No?

A couple of people suggested getting the ISC UNIX 3.01 upgrade disks.
Would this be able to configure the ATI board correctly so that I
wouldn't have to go through MSDOS?

Anyway, thanks to the following folks:

howardl@wb3ffv.wb3ffv.ampr.org (Howard Leadmon - WB3FFV)
cpcahil@virtech.vti.com (Conor P. Cahill)
Scott.Wiesner@Central.Sun.COM (Scott Wiesner)
smj@cup.portal.com
Kay Schulz <kschulz@grey.t-informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore)

Scott

scott coburn                                brookhaven national laboratory
scott@gorzarg5.phy.bnl.gov [130.199.20.28]                  upton, ny, usa

                Define the Universe.  Give three examples.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: sam@wa4phy (Sam Drinkard)
Subject: feature?
Organization: Diversified Computer Services
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:29:54 GMT


Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I just noticed something.. when I do an 
"rm -rf *" from, say ~nuucp, or /tmp, how come it changes the permissions
of that directory afterwards.  Does it remove the directory too, then
re-create it?

inquiring minds would like to know..

thanks..

sam

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From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Subject: Re: Esix/Motif Question
Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:09:10 GMT

In article <BxvMtt.2DB@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:

>Last I heard, a good portion of ESIX's technical support
>team quit..

As always, either you heard wrong, or you heard what you wanted to hear.

*One* person quit for a better job at a University. Contrary to your
misconceptions, this does not constitute "a good portion" of ESIX
technical staff.

>I have no idea if they have been replaced as of yet..

Indeed, Jeff will be damned hard to replace, It's possible they'll
never quite fill his shoes. But this hardly means ESIX support has
disintegrated, it's alive and well.

Never put it beyond our favourite Dellevangelist to add his two cents of
FUD, when some real information might have done wonders instead.

-- 
 Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
         evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
         "IBM's three letters are probably EBCDIC for CYA" - Nik H.
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From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: UPS, SCO and automatic shutdown
Organization: The Gator Conferencing System 219-289-3745 
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:29:42 GMT

gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon) writes:

>APC makes excellent UPSs and UPS shutdown software for SCO.  I highly recommend
>it.

And one of their modems (SmartUPS 600 I believe) is available
at my local Sams for $269 -- which is a good deal (about Tech
Data prices)
-- 
Larry Snyder                                    internet: larry@gator.rn.com
keeper of the Gator                                  uucp: uunet!gator!larry
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: sam@csi.compuserve.com (Sam Neely)
Subject: Re: Names no longer being seen (gethostbyname stops) with ISC 2.2.1
Organization: CompuServe Incorporated
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:02:49 GMT

In article <BxtKzH.IL8@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>sam@csi.compuserve.com (Sam Neely) writes:
>
>>Now that I've got that off my chest...  My guess is that you changed
>>your nameserver information when you updated sendmail.  Check out
>>what you've got in /etc/resolv.conf.  If that looks kosher, make
>>sure you've got a route to the nameserver(s) with netstat -nr.
>
>I'm using uunet for my nameserver as defined in /etc/resolv.conf --
>how long before entries to uunet's namesever are shared around the
>world with the various other nameservers?

Gee, that's a little out of the scope of the original question, but
what the heck, I'll give it a shot...

Here is the SOA record for rn.com from uunet(ns.uu.net):

rn.com	172800 IN	SOA	ns.UU.NET hostmaster.uunet.UU.NET(
			921112	;serial (version)
			432000	;refresh period
			3600	;retry refresh this often
			864000	;expiration period
			172800	;minimum TTL
			)
rn.com	172800 IN	NS	ns.UU.NET
rn.com	172800 IN	NS	uucp-gw-1.pa.DEC.COM
rn.com	172800 IN	NS	uucp-gw-2.pa.DEC.COM
rn.com	172800 IN	NS	ns.EU.net
rn.com	172800 IN	NS	ns1.RUTGERS.EDU
rn.com	172800 IN	MX	200 relay1.UU.NET
rn.com	172800 IN	MX	200 relay2.UU.NET
Additional information:
ns.UU.NET	172800 IN	A	137.39.1.3
uucp-gw-1.pa.DEC.COM	133836 IN	A	16.1.0.18
uucp-gw-2.pa.DEC.COM	47487 IN	A	16.1.0.19
ns.EU.net	86400 IN	A	192.16.202.11
ns1.RUTGERS.EDU	133859 IN	A	128.6.21.6
relay1.UU.NET	172800 IN	A	137.39.1.5
relay1.UU.NET	172800 IN	A	192.48.96.5
relay2.UU.NET	172800 IN	A	137.39.1.7
relay2.UU.NET	172800 IN	A	192.48.96.7

The SOA record for rn.com at uunet has a serial number of 921112, which
by convention means that an update was performed on 12-Nov-92.  The
refresh period is set to 432000 seconds, which means the secondary
nameservers will check every 5 days with the master specified in the
boot file.  (uucp-gw-1.pa.dec.com and uucp-gw-2.pa.dec.com have
already expired and pulled serial number 921112 down.  ns.eu.net and
ns1.rutgers.edu have not and are still running with serial 921109.)

The minimum time to live is set to 172800 seconds, which means that
any record that is cached in any nameserver around the world will
remained cached for 2 days.  After that, it will go back to one of the
nameservers for an update.  If it goes to ns.uu.net, or one of the two
dec.com sites, it will get the newest information.  If it goes to
ns.eu.net or ns1.rutgers.edu, it will get the slightly stale
information.

In theory, your nameserver info at rutgers and eu.net will time out
Real Soon Now, and current data will be sucked off of the nameserver
at uunet, assuming that's how your secondaries get the information.
-- 
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5000 Arlington Centre Blvd, Columbus, OH  43220     +1 614 457 0348 (FAX)
Electronic Mail:  InfoPlex: >CSI:SAM      Internet: SAM@CSI.COMPUSERVE.COM
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: Source Code for BSD UNIX needed
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:18:54 GMT

In article <By14w0.JFB@ulowell.ulowell.edu> sprajapa@sol.ulowell.edu (Sunil ) writes:

>I need to know whether I can get UNIX BSD source code and if so, from where.

You can get some of it from various FTP sites. Berkeley has "temporarily
suspended" distribution of tapes.

If you want *all* of it, you'll need a source license from AT&T.

-- 
Gary Heston    SCI Systems, Inc.  gary@sci34hub.sci.com   site admin
The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
"Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: jmp@login.qc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.sys5.r4
Subject: max.tar has been uploaded to US4BINR
Date: 18 Nov 92 21:09:39 GMT
Organization: us4binr


MAXIMOT: A game with words (English and French)


Description:

	Maximots is a "cross-linkage" between Hangman and Scrabble (TM)

        Maximots is a game based on words that can be played with two, three 
        or four players, at least one of them beeing Max, the computer.
          
        The purpose of the game is to accumulate as many points as possible 
        during a certain number of turns, writing a word using the letters 
        displayed on the screen. On each turn, the number of letters can vary 
        from six (6) to twelve (12), each letter having its own value.

	This game can be played either in English or French.


Status:

	You can freely use this software on a personal base, (ie: you can't
	make money with it), concept and reproduction are copyrighted.

AUTHOR

	Send bugs to jmp@login.qc.ca

To download max.tar, mail the FOLLOWING 3 LINES to request@us4binr.uucp
or to request%us4binr.uucp@uunet.uu.net

    reply your_email_address
    get games/educ/max.tar
    quit

To get help on uploads and downloads, email

    reply your_email_address
    help
    quit
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jacques@us4binr.uucp jacques%us4binr.uucp@uunet.uu.net
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: mokros@chekov.UU.NET (Ivo Mokros)
Subject: IDE/SCSI compatability
Organization: Nothern Telecom, Ottawa, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 18:35:50 GMT

Greetings

I am running SVR4 (Consensys) on a 486 with IDE drives.  I have
recently come across a VERY cheap SCSI disk, and I am wondering
if anyone has connected both IDE and SCSI drives on the same
machine.  Can there be a conflict with the 2 controllers?
If this configuration is possible, can anyone recomend a good
SCSI controller?

My setup: 486/33 ISA bus, 205MB WD drive and 480MB Seagate drive, 
          3.5 and 5.25 floppies.

Thanks for any advice.

-----
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email: mokros@bnr.ca  |necessarily reflect those of BNR or Northern Telecom.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.sys5.r3
From: pizzi@nervous.com (Riccardo Pizzi)
Subject: need to make a program dump core on a signal (abort() doesn't work)
Followup-To: poster
Reply-To: pizzi@nervous.com (Riccardo Pizzi)
Organization: The Nervous XTC Public Access Unix System, Rimini, ITALY
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 14:57:55 GMT

I'm trying to make a program dump core upon reception of SIGUSR1.
Unfortunately, the abort(3) call doesn't seem to work.
Yes, I verified that:
1) the current working dir is writable
2) uid and euid of the program are the same
3) there is no shell-imposed coresize limit
Still the abort() call doesn't create a core dump.

Is there another way to make a program dump core?
This is under ISC 2.2.1 (SVR3) and gcc.

Many thanks in advance,

Rick
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E-Mail -> pizzi@nervous.com        <*>      Bang-path -> uunet!nervous!pizzi
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore)
Subject: Re: DEcreasing ISC swap space?
Organization: American Micro Group, Ft. Lee  NJ
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 14:45:50 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.230005.20675@gremlin.muug.mb.ca> charles@gremlin.muug.mb.ca (Charles) writes:
>
>Is there anyway to decrease the amount of swap space I gave ISC 2.2.1 when
>I installed it?  I originally gave it 30 megs of space,
>and now 6 months later, I find the most I've ever used is 5 megs, so I
>figure I can safely drop it down to 16 meg and put the other 14 megs to
>better use.  
>
>I would hate to have to take the chance reformatting and reinstalling if I
>don't have to.
>
>Thanks..Charles
>
Your swap space is a 'soft' partition. You can reduce it in size by
making a smaller soft partition for swap and making another mountable
filesystem partition with what's left over, in place of your current
swap partition, or effectively add the left over space by deleting
the adjacent partition and remaking both as one.

If you want to see what partitions are available for use and what
you have allocated now give the command:

    mkpart -tvpa disk0

or if not disk0 whatever your disk is called in the /etc/partitions 
file. You'll want to check out the man pages for mkpart, mkfs, labelit,
swap. You will have to edit the parttions file by hand to reflect your
new values, and use them with mkpart. You may want to practice on
an unneccesary partition first!

But you need at least as much swap space as you have memory and you
actually swap to, since in the case of a panic and crash you need
someplace for the memory image to go, and if it reaches the end of
your swap space it will happily begin writing over the next partition.
-- 
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American Micro Group, Inc.   201-944-3293
From: mcitron@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Mark Citron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: in house support personnel
Date: 23 Nov 1992 20:26:36 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phad.hsc.usc.edu

I apologize for posting this inquiry here but I am not sure which 
group would be more appropriate.

I would like to know the ratio of end users to microcomputer support personnel
in your company/institution. An approximation would fine.

Thanks for any help
Mark Citron
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

-- 
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mark@neurosci.usc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: daw@vivanet.com (David A. Wolf)
Subject: Re: accessing NOVELL from SCO-ODT
Organization: VIVATRON Corporation 
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:00:47 GMT
Followup-To: daw@vivanet.com
Summary: New product called NETCON
Keywords: sco unix odt novell

In article <1dpl8bINNkjq@rave.larc.nasa.gov> jka@windshear.larc.nasa.gov (J. Keith Alston) writes:
>
>Hi,
>   I'm running SCO ODT. I need to know if there is any way that
>   ODT's DOS under unix can access a novell network? Or is there any
>   way that the novell net can be accessed directly from SCO unix?
>   any ideas/information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
>-Keith Alston
> jka@windshear.larc.nasa.gov
>
There is a new product called NETCON being distributed by 
MINI-BYTE Software of Avenel, NJ, (908)-855-9660.

NETCON "blends Novell Netware with UNIX"
Any PC on the network can access server based applications
running under unix.  UNIX users can access Novell Files and
printers as well.  Call Mini-byte or your nearest SCO APC.

-good luck...

David A. Wolf                               Toll: 716-272-0820
VIVATRON Corporation                        Free: 800-836-UNIX
Rochester, New York, USA                     Fax: 716-272-7627
SCO Advanced Product Center                email: daw@vivanet.com
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: lisbon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Gerry Swetsky)
Subject: "talk" with ISC Unix 3.0
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:40:05 GMT


Okay, so ISC's 3.0 is supposed to be an improvement over 2.2 - So why
doesn't "talk" work anymore?

We configured 3.0 and installed the tcp/ip package - set up a loopback
configuration.  We can get "talk" to work from virtual terminal to
virtual terminal, but trying it across the modem lines results in a
one-way conversation.  We can talk from the console to our users, but
they can't get anything back to us.

Everything is the same as before except /etc/hosts had to be set up
differently.  Under 2.2, it looked like this:

    127.1	local localhost
    127.1.1.1	vpnet vpnet.chi.il.us

Now vpnet has to be on the same line as localhosts or we'll get an
error.  127.1.1.1 doesn't exist.

Let's see, what did I leave out?  Our I/O is via DigiBoard 16e same as
before, though we're using a newer driver now.  And yes, we're in init
state 3.

HELP!!!

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.questions
From: simon@sco.COM (Simon Tooke)
Subject: re: How does a mortal become a UNIX WIZARD ?
Organization: SCO Canada, Inc.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:33:11 GMT


Ade Barkah writes:

> Which bibles should we study ? (after memorizing O'Rileys to become
>   an X Wizzie ?)
> 
> How many kernels (and which ones) we need to take apart and reassemble ?
> 
> Some doth say that the only way thou shall gain salvation is to
> partake in the (sacrireligios) ceremony of rewriting Unix from
> scratch.
>
> So, oh, mylord, how does a mortal become a Unix Wizard ?

Wizard Pills.

-simon

===============================================================================
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....!scocan!simon             simon@sco.com                Fax:  (416) 922-2704
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: jason@oaknet.chi.il.us (Jason Vanick)
Subject: Math Coprocessor and Svr3.2.1
Organization: OAKNET - public access unix
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 01:52:15 GMT

I am currently running AT&T Unix System V release 3.2.1 on a 386 and have
the option of buying a 387 mathcoprocessor, I have the option of buying
a Cyrix or Intel chip, and I would like to know if it would improve preformance
with the operating system itself, and/or X11r4.
Please respond via Email to save bandwith...
Thanks,
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From: patry@Software.Mitel.COM (Jean-Yves Patry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: UPS, SCO and automatic shutdown
Date: 17 Nov 92 13:51:32 GMT
Organization: MITEL Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, Canada
In-reply-to: fisher@ncselxsi.uucp's message of 16 Nov 92 15:16:30 GMT


You might want to try the following parts:

800VA UPS Model 40 from Emerson
Unix Shutdown software from Emerson

This is what we are recommending to our customers. Let me know if you
want further documentation. We are buying these parts from Hamilton
Avnet.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Subject: Re: High end video recommendations wanted
Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:07:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.142701.17968@crd.ge.com>
	davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:

>  Before I tell people to buy workstations, does anyone sell a high
>performance video system which will run under ODT or Dell V.4? We're
>looking for 24 bit color at resolutions of 1152x900 and/or 1280x1024
>and/or 1280x960. At this res obviously you need acceleration.

Here are the high-end video boards supported by 80x86 UNIX that I know of.
I have no idea how much they cost or what their relative speeds are:

Resolution		Board					Supported by

1600x1200, 256		Number 9 GXI Level 27			PPC
1600x1200, 256		Artist XJS 12-16 (2MB)			PPC
1600x1200, 16		Whirlwin 1600				Pixelworks
1600x1200, 16		Pixelworks WhirlWIN 1600		MetroLink
1600x1200, 16		Number 9 GXI 1600			PPC
1664x1200, mono		Everex UltraGraphics II			ESIX
1280x1024, 16.7M	Artist WinSprint 400/256 (2MB)		PPC
1280x1024, 32K		VidTech GrapMax				PPC*
1280x1024, 32K		Number 9 GXITC Level 29			PPC*
1280x1024, 256		Whirlwin 1280				Pixelworks
1280x1024, 256		VidTech GrapMax LB24 (VLBus,2MB)	PPC*
1280x1024, 256		Pixelworks WhirlWIN 1280		MetroLink
1280x1024, 256		Pixelworks WhirlWIN			SGCS
1280x1024, 256		Number 9 GX				MetroLink*
1280x1024, 256		Nth Graphics Engine/150			SGCS
1280x1024, 256		Nth Graphics Engine/150			MetroLink
1280x1024, 256		Microfield X8/V8			MetroLink*
1280x1024, 256		Microfield X8				Microfield
1280x1024, 256		Microfield V8				Microfield
1280x1024, 256		Microfield T8				Microfield
1280x1024, 256		Matrox PG1281 Series			MetroLink
1280x1024, 256		ELSA Winner 1280			SGCS
1280x1024, 256		Artist WinSprint 400/16 		PPC
1280x1024, 256		Artist WinSprint 1000, 900		PPC
1280x1024, 256		Actix Graphics Engine 32+/LB(2MB)	PPC
1280x1024, 256		Actix Graphics Engine 32+		PPC
1280x1024, 256		ATI ULTRA PRO/ULTRAZ Plus		SGCS
1280x1024, 256		ATI 8514 Graphics Pro			MetroLink
1280x1024, 256		ATI 8514 Graphics Plus			MetroLink
1024x768, 64K		ATI Graphics Ultra+/Graphics Pro	????
1024x768, 32K		Actix Graphics Engine 32+/LB(2MB)	PPC*
800x600, 16.7M		ATI Graphics Ultra+/Graphics Pro	????

Abbreviations:

PPC - Pittsburgh Powercomputing
SGCS - Snittly Graphics Consulting Service
* - Expected on or before first quarter, 1993
???? - The card can do this, but a driver does not exist yet.

This information is based on the best information I have from Univel,
ESIX and ATI. I hope it helps.

-- 
 Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
         evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
         "IBM's three letters are probably EBCDIC for CYA" - Nik H.
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