HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: R4k Indigo memory
Date: 3 Oct 92 02:02:00 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <32863@adm.brl.mil> blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB) writes:
|       4D/3X & Indigo, 32MB Kit (KSG32/RPC) $1300 (Part #:KTM-32/MM3) (Oct. '92)
|       Indigo R4000 32MB Kit (KSG32/R40) $1100 (Oct. '92)
|       Indigo R4000 64MB Kit (KSG64/R40) $2300 (Oct. '92)

Not to accuse Impediment of anything, but one of our marketing folks
brought some 3rd party r4k indigo memory into our lab the other day
(I honestly don't remember who it was from), and it was a rather
strange configuration, that could result in much worse bus loading
than our standard SIMMs.  That memory could lead to unreliable
operation (or it might work just fine, depending on which side
of tolerances all the various parts are).  So make sure you
get money back guarantees, or deal with somebody who is really
understands memory and SIMMs.
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    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: marcouil@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Luc Marcouiller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Cdplayer ... where ?
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:35:29 GMT
Reply-To: marcouil@ireq.hydro.qc.ca
Organization: Hydro-Quebec

Sorry but there was a post today from some guy at Kuck&Associate who
wrote what seems to be a nice cdplayer program.  I tought I had saved it but ...
I screwed ! and therefore lost all pointers I had.  Could somebody email me
the thing or the e-mail adress where I can reach him.  Thanx !

Share and Enjoy !

Luc  --> marcouil@ireq.hydro.qc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: wes@uf.msc.edu (Wes Barris)
Subject: Re: Rotate in tops ????
Reply-To: wes@msc.edu
Organization: AHPCRC, Minnesota Supercomputer Center
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 13:44:11 GMT

In article <jrh-011092080628@coyote.de.deere.com>, jrh@de.deere.com (John R. Howell) writes:
|> Is it possible to get tops to print in landscape format???
|> 
|> This is a trivial PostScript operator, but I haven't seen anything about
|> this in the tops man page.  So far I have had to create new image files
|> with iflip before sending them to the printer with tops.
|> 
|> I suppose another option would be to write a filter that would stuff the
|> appropriate rotate transform in the PostScript code and do something like:
|> 
|> tops imgfile | RotateFilter | lp
|> 
|> but this seems awfully messy for such an obvious feature.
|> 
|> Perhaps I'm missing something?

I think you are.  Why not rotate the image before sending it to "tops"
using iflip?

pi2> iflip
usage: iflip inimage outimage [x y xy yz 90 180 or 270]
pi2>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: guy@wmsg02.wm.estec.esa.nl (Guy Brooker)
Subject: Re: Moving an ELAN graphics board
Organization: ESA/Estec/WMS, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 11:41:33 GMT

In article <qff0uhg@zola.esd.sgi.com>, peterb@perturb.esd.sgi.com (Peter Birch) writes:
 > 
 > In article <1a95p7INNs58@agate.berkeley.edu>, 
 >   desilva@tikal.ced.berkeley.edu writes:
 > > Is it possible to move an elan board from a crimson to an
 > > r4k indigo or regular indigo? If so, how hard is it to do?
 > 
 > Well, if you open up your Crimson, you might notice that there looks to be a
 > board set inside that looks a lot like an Indigo board set.  I'll just bet
 > that if you disconnect it from the 9U bracket, plug it into an Indigo, and
 > install new software that it will work. ;^)
 > 
 > peter
 > 
 > .....Peter Birch.....peterb@perturb.esd.sgi.com.....MTS, Graphics Hardware.....
 > ......Silicon Graphics, Inc.....Mountain View, CA 94039.....(415)390-1512......

I think this goes a little further, is the 24bit colour upgrade for the
Crimson the same as for the Indigo ? We have recently had some welcome
price reductions here in Holland on the XS and Entry Indigos, but confusingly,
the price of the XS24 and Elan stayed the same. To keep the pricing structure
rational, this has meant that the upgrade from XS to XS24 has almost DOUBLED from 5500 Guilders (Dfl) to 9630 Dfl, overnight, for no change in spec !

However, the upgrade for the Crimson from XS to XS24 graphics still costs the same price 5500 Dfl.  Now, as far as I know its just a couple of Video RAM simms... My sales rep. couldn't give me any justification for the pricing anonmaly, but warned that buying the Crimson upgrade for my Indigo would result in the loss of support. Is this pricing policy local to Holland or Europe ?
Any comments out there ??

Guy Brooker

guy@wm.estec.esa.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: what is libisam.a ?
From: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell Fulton)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 21:36:46 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.

What exactly is libisam.a and where are the routines documented.

I found it by accident when I typed -lisam instead of -lcisam. The
latter is Informix's CISAM library. The load completed without problems
but the database open gave strange errors. libisam.a clearly contains a
'compatible' isam library, if it does everthing that CISAM does then we
may well drop CISAM. 

My best guess is that it is an older version of CISAM. That would
explain some of the odd errors I got. Can someone confirm this?

Cheers, Russell.
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<rj_fulton@aukuni.ac.nz>
From: rz81134@executioner.d50.lilly.com (Douglas E. James)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: FDDI / Ethernet NFS problems
Keywords: nfs,fddi,rpc
Date: 30 Sep 92 14:36:57 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Eli Lilly and Company


	I am currently configuring a SGI PowerFile 100 with 2 ethernets and a
FDDI interface.  I currently have the ethernet interface as the primary and am
playing around with FDDI interface testing different things.  I have run into
an interesting problem.

	All the systems who have made NFS mounts to the fileserver, using the 
ethernet interface name/address and the route back to the systems from the
fileserver is through FDDI interface, are experiencing very slow NFS performance.
If the mount is redone through the FDDI interface, everything is fine.

	We have watched the ethernet packets between the two systems, and noticed
that the rpc request went to the ethernet interface, but the reply came from the
FDDI interface.  Is there a problem in the NFS client that is concerned about the
fact that the reply came from a different address then the request address..?  Is
this responsible for the long delay..?  

	Have we configured something incorrectly on the Fileserver...?  When the
system has been completely configured, all the NFS request will be going to the 
FDDI interface, but we are interested in what is happening.

	If you have experienced anything similiar, or know what is happening
between the two systems, any help would be greatly appreciated.

	Thanks in advance.

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From: mmcohen@cats.ucsc.edu (Michael M Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: bvo_admin quits
Date: 30 Sep 1992 01:26:53 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


System is a crimson-vgx 4.0.5
bvo_admin fails with message...

>bvo_admin
Label font not found.

>versions -a | grep bvo
I  bvo                  06/06/90  VGX Broadcast Video Option
I  bvo.man              06/06/90  Broadcast Video Documentation
I  bvo.man.bvo          06/06/90  Broadcast Video - Man Page
I  bvo.man.relnotes     06/06/90  Broadcast Video Release Notes
I  bvo.sw               06/06/90  Broadcast Video Software
I  bvo.sw.bvo           06/06/90  Broadcast Video Software
   bvo.sw.diag                    Broadcast Video Diags
I  maint_bvo            08/18/92  VGX Broadcast Video Product Maint, 1.2
I  maint_bvo.bvo_man    08/18/92  Broadcast Video Documentation
I  maint_bvo.bvo_man.bvo 08/18/92 Broadcast Video - Man Page
I  maint_bvo.bvo_man.relnotes 08/18/92 1.2 BVO Release Notes
I  maint_bvo.bvo_sw     08/18/92  Broadcast Video Software
I  maint_bvo.bvo_sw.bvo 08/18/92  Broadcast Video Software
   maint_bvo.bvo_sw.diag          Broadcast Video Diags

----------------------------------------
relnotes indicates bvo version 1.0
Was relnotes not revised?
Is bvo_admin sick?
Do I have wrong version installed (i.e. was 4.0.5
version not installed [by FE])?

Theories welcomed, TIA...
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From: wiltzius@anduin.ocf.llnl.gov (Dave Wiltzius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: 4.0.5 form bug
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:12:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: lll-wink.137563
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab.

We just upgraded to 4.0.5 and found a serious error when using "form".
This was resolved by replacing format.o in the 4.0.5 libC.a file with
the format.o from the 4.0.4 libC.a file.  The manifestation of this
problem was that the output from form was very long and ultimately
core dumped the process.

Is there a fix available for this?  Thanks much.  Please email since
our news service is flakey.

  Dave Wiltzius
  Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab
  wiltzius@llnl.gov
  (510) 422-1551
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: rshyam@IASTATE.EDU (Swaminathan Rajagopalan)
Subject: SGI GL Interactive surface patch programs....... 
Reply-To: rshyam@IASTATE.EDU (Swaminathan Rajagopalan)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 23:03:18 GMT

I am working on a project to implement workpiece visibility and setups
as applied to NC machining using SGI GL programs. I saw a demo of an 
Interactive curve generation module which helps u to interactively
change the control points on the screen. I was not able locate the
source code for that program at some ftp sites. If some one knows as 
to where the src for this program might be send me an email. I would also
be interested in knowing as to whether there exists any Interactive
Surface generation programs available as a part of GL demo libraries or
else where..

Thanx..

Shyam

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: lottey@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (lottey)
Subject: 'Extent list trashed' error
Organization: AC Technology
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 14:44:44 GMT

Our Iris 4D/220, running Irix 3.3.1, gave me several error messages
of the form 

/dev/dsk/dks0d5s3: extent list trashed, inode xxxxx

This certainly doesn't sound good.  Unfortunately, I haven't been able
to find either a description of the error or enough detailed file system
info in the documentation to explain what is going on.  Any suggestions?

If replying by email, please use the address in the sig rather than the
one in the header.

Thanks,
Steven Gaarder                              Network and Systems Administrator
gaarder@actech.com                          A C Technology, Ithaca, N.Y., USA
From: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: /etc/motd (Was: Re: help for man binary) [really /etc/issue]
Date: 28 Sep 92 14:05:07 GMT


     arpopos issue or "man -k issue" do NOT get you references to the getty
or login man pages.  At least not under IRIX 3.3.2 or 4.0.1.

  Brent L. Bates				Phone:(804) 864-2854
  M.S. 361			  		  FAX:(804) 864-8469
  NASA Langley Research Center
  Hampton, Virginia  23681-0001
  E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero00.larc.nasa.gov
From: rcion@rw5.urc.tue.nl (Ion Barosan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: VGX mouse
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:30:26 GMT
Reply-To: rcion@urc.tue.nl

Hello everyone,

I wold like to ask people from SGI about  :

1.Does the standard configuration of SGI 4D/310 VGX come with an optical
  mouse of mechanical mouse ?


Thanks in advance ,

- Ion Barosan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Arg List Too Long with 4.0.5
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 18:52:51 GMT

In <1992Oct4.051135.27330@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> chatz@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (David Chatterton) writes:
| Since I upgraded from IRIX 3.*.* to 4.0.5 some software packages cannot
| be easily recompiled due to some commands, usually 'ar', failing due to:
| 
| Arg List Too Long
| 
| when linking a large number of object files. This limit was not present
| on the old system - is there anyway of avoiding it? The reason this is
| difficult to avoid is because it is hard to set up an imakefile to link
| in two seperate stages. One such package which has this problem is
| Khoros.

You had probably reconfigured your kernel to allow a larger arglist.
Change "SYSNCARGS" in master.d/kernel, run /etc/autoconfig, and
reboot.  Note that the csh still has a builtin limit for wildcard
expansion that isn't affected by that change, but that doesn't sound
like your problem.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: rnelson@ocelot.csc.wsu.edu (Roger Nelson)
Subject: Help with QIC02->SCSI tape drive replacement
Organization: Washington State University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 00:33:14 GMT


We are attempting to replace our 60 meg QIC-02 tape drive with a 
180 meg SCSI tape drive.  

What else do I need to do besides the following:

Remove the QIC-02 drive from the shoebox.

Set the SCSI address jumpers (does the SCSI address have to be greater or
less than the SCSI harddrives?).

Mount the SCSI drive in the shoebox and connect the power.

Connect the tape cable to the 50 pin connector on the SCSI bus board in the
shoebox (not the QIC-02 data cable).

I am getting dksc(0,2) and dksc(0,4) (my SCSI harddisks) resetting after 
1 sec timeout errors as soon as IRIX starts booting and the tape drive
busy LED stays on all the time.  I have tried all combinations of SCSI
address jumper settings (first trying ID 1, the HDs are set to 2 and 4).

Once the drive is installed correctly, do I need to do anything else besides
the following?

delete nrtape nrtapens tape tapens  from the /dev directory
make -f MAKEDEV tape  in the /dev directory
link (ln -s) nrtape nrtapens tape tapens to the respective 
/dev/mt/tps0dxxxx devices.

Thanks for any info, Roger

P.S. Many thanks to Dave Olson for replying to my previous queries
     about inst failing to restart and diskless IRIS workstations.
     (I have been unable to send reply mail to dec.com from this machine.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: vamsee@bioiris.tamu.edu (Vamsee Lakamsani)
Subject: pixmap editor
Organization: Center for Macromolecular Design, Texas A&M University.
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 23:10:40 GMT

Is there a pixmap editor available somewhere for the SGIs ?
Can I create pixmaps just like I create bitmaps using the bitmap
editor ? How can I use pixmaps in a motif module. Does XmGetPixmap
work for pixmap files as well ? Specifics on creating and using pixmaps
in motif programs will be very helpful. I am on an Indigo Elan. 

Vamsee

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: trumbull@allegro.unx.sas.com (Ed Trumbull)
Subject: Internal SCSI cable lengths
Originator: trumbull@allegro.unx.sas.com
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 13:57:28 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Keywords: Crimson and Iris File cabinets


   We're in the process of rearranging some space in our data center,
and I want to put the Iris file cabinet above our Crimson.  Because
the SCSI connector for the Crimson is on the front of the cabinet
(why??  To me, this is not where one would put it to minimize cable
lengths), I find myself needing a long (2.5 to 3 meter) SCSI cable to
connect the cabinets.  I need to know how long the internal cables are
in those two cabinets so I can be sure that I don't exceed SCSI-1
length restrictions.  


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SAS Institute, Inc.      SAS Campus Drive   Cary, NC    27513   USA
From: rweisbe@starfleet.nswc.navy.mil (Bob Weisbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Mail lockin
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:53:38 GMT
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center

Well I'm not sure if I should have posted this to the comp.mail group
but I thought that I would try here.

  This has happened several times and I'm not sure of the best way to
clear it up or how to prevent it. Also the situation that I'm going to
describe may not be exactly what happened the other times but other 
situations did not enable me to study the problems before the user took 
matters into their own hands. In this one case the user did nothing 
until I could get a chance to look at things.

  The user was logged in via their pc and typing in a reply to a mail 
message via Mail. For some reason his pc was powered down (actually 
some came in to talk and bumped the off switch if you can believe that).
Any how when the user logged back in he could not delete any of his mail
messages.  I looked in /usr/mail and saw a username.rolock file. In the
file was the number 344. That is the pid of the user's mail process.  I
moved the file to another name and the user was able to process mail 
like normal. But I still have the original shell and mail process
in the system. I thought if I removed the .rolock file it would clean 
up these processes; but it did not. (ps -ef is what I'm using to 
determine if the processes cleared up). 

  So my questions are:
    
    1) Should I have renamed or removed this lock file? It seemed to 
       be ok this time but what problems could it have created?
  
    2) Is there a method for preventing the user's mailbox from being
       locked up under such circumstances?

    3) I realize that phathom(sp) processes will be in the system from
       time to time and that in this case mail had something to do with
       creating them. I was able to do a kill -9 on the sh process and
       they went away but could this also have screwed up the user's 
       mailbox?  Are there some guidelines that one should follow 
       cleaning up mail or other processes? I realize no one really 
       knows what a process is doing, thus killing it may cause problems
       but what is the best way to do this to prevent any problems? 
       In this case nothing bad happened but I may have been lucky.
From: holder@central.cis.upenn.edu (Gaylord Holder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Long long cables.
Date: 2 Oct 92 21:09:18 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

How far away can I separate the monitor/keyboard for Indigos,
Crimsons, and a 4D340?  I know that SGI sells a 75 foot cable, but I
need 150 to 200 feet as the lab and the machine room are down the hall
from each other

Is there some sort of extender?

-Gaylord
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 4.0.5 and mount
Date: 28 Sep 92 23:42:24 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In article <1992Sep28.202615.26268@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, kunz@binah.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
> I have just upgraded our 4D35's to 4.0.5 and found to my dismay that
> users may no longer use `mount' and `umount' to mount and unmount
> our MO disk. The message I get is
> must be root to use mount.
> Is there any easy way around this?
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> Sara Kunz
> Brandeis Univ., Waltham, MA



The mount and umount system calls have always required EUID=0 by the
caller.  The good ol' suser() function is used first thing
in smount() and sumount() in sys3.c.

Perhaps you had used `chmod u+s /etc/mount /etc/umount` to make
the commands SUID (and open a modest security hole in your system).


Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
From: fred@poly2.nist.gov (Frederick R. Phelan Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Soft PC Query
Date: 3 Oct 92 03:08:57 GMT

Anybody using Soft PC out there who would care to comment
on it?  For instance, does it recognize the mouse? How
does it handle file names longer than the standard DOS
8.3?  Does it do windows :-) ?  Anybody using it with 
Word Perfect?  Can you run it in an xterm shell being
displayed at an X-terminal?  These last two would be 
the main way in which this would be used.  BTW, it is
a total bummer that WP CORP. has decided not to support
WP for the SGI platform.  

Thanks for any help. 

Fred
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From: wsherman@ncsa.uiuc.edu (William Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Math symbols in showcase - bullet
Date: 30 Sep 92 20:57:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BvEswn.1tI
Distribution: na
Organization: National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Not exactly a math symbol, but does anyone know how to get
a bullet in showcase?  It does not show up in the keyboard
gizmo under any conditions that I can find.  The funny thing
is, I know someone who has showcase slides made at SGI that
have bullets in them - and they are bullets, not filled circles.
In other words, they are part of a text string.

	Thanks,
	Bill

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