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From: ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray)
Subject: named: xfer returned 255
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering Inc.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:35:19 GMT



I'm trying to set up a secondary name server on a Sparc2 running 4.1.1.
It ain't working.  The only clue I get is that it sends messages to
syslog:

Jul 23 10:23:40 hostname named[24181]: xfer returned 255

I've configured the boot file like so:


directory       /etc/named.d
#cache          .                       named.cache
secondary       microunity.com          [primary server address here]
secondary       86.192.in-addr.arpa     [primary server address here]
primary         0.0.127.in-addr.arpa    named.local



Adding or commenting out the cache line doesn't change things.
I thought I saw a reference to a Sun patch numbered 1005?? that
addressed this, but I can't find the reference now.

Does anyone have a clue that they can send me?

Thankx.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: fitzgb@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald)
Subject: Re: DNS & Resolver. Things Sun should do.
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:50:20 GMT

nicholls writes:
>In article <yvent.711983630@theseas> yvent@ntua.gr (Yannis Ventikos) writes:
>>
>>I have been reading the comp.sys.sun.admin newsgroup for a couple of
>>months now ...
>>You can do anything you want on a Sun: run NIS or don't, run primary...
>>yvent@areti.marinentua.ariadne-t.gr
>>yvent@theseas.ntua.gr (news server)
>
>I wouldn't mind setting up NIS if I knew what the heck it was.
>I recently did a 'grep NIS /usr/man/man?/*' and came up with
>nothing.  If Sun thinks NIS is so great, why isn't it in the manual?

NIS is yellow pages.  see /usr/man/man?/yp*.  To get started, just pick
one machine to be a master and type "ypinit -m" on it.  Pick a few
others to be slave yp servers and type "ypinit -s mastername" on them.
Finally, start up ypbind on all your machines.

Also, run yppasswdd on the master server.

Starting up yp is not a big deal.

If the ypdomain extends across networks, use ypxfr to transfer the
maps.  Use the crontabs found in /usr/etc/yp.

Before starting, be sure to get the latest yp security patches by anon
ftp from ftp.uu.net in /systems/sun/sun-dist.  Get patches 100201,
100377, and 100482.

Brian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: feigin@iis.ethz.ch (Adam W. Feigin)
Subject: Re: What's the biggest *internal* SCSI disk an 4/65 can handle?
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 07:10:47 GMT


I've got 2 Seagate 424MB drives in my 4/65 at home, and I dont have
any problems......

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: cote@cg.emr.ca (Tim Cote)
Subject: Re: Yet another naive partitioning question
Reply-To: cote@cg.emr.ca
Organization: Dept. of Energy, Mines & Resources, Canada
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:59:42 GMT

In article 22378@colorado.edu, ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett) writes:
>I'm wondering if I need more than one partition per drive. Is there any problem
>with just making the whole drive one big partiton, and having everything on that?
>Does anyone have any input on this, or suggested reading in the manuals?
>
>Ed Hartnett
You can just use the c partition (which is by default the whole drive) if you want
the whole drive as one partition. This works fine for non-root drives but for 
your boot disk you are still going to need your /, /usr and swap partitions.
You can probably even have your /, /usr and swap partitions on different drives, 
but then things start getting messy.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,mail.sun-managers
From: jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins)
Subject: Re: ATTENTION: A problem with dump under 4.1.1
Keywords: tape, cleaning
Organization: Pacific Data Products
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:47:23 GMT

In article <HFL-H1A7T@linac.fnal.gov> billq@pogo.fnal.gov writes:
>|> In article <1992Jul20.073110.20195@aristo.tau.ac.il> shani@GENIUS.TAU.AC.IL (Oren Shani) writes:
>|> We have had (are having?) similar problems.  We occationally get an error:
>|> 
>|>   DUMP: Tape write error 753 feet into tape 1
>|>   DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails
>|>   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
>|> 
>Sorry if I've missed this in an earlier followup, but has the drive been
>cleaned?

Wunnerful.  I got the same errors and sent my tape drive out for repair, I
get back from vacation and see this thread.

Anyway, we have 2 exabytes.  I was going to move our dump from one to the
other for convienance and found I could no longer write to it.  I tried
using tar and it wouldn't write to the tape either.  Cleaned the tape
head, tried a new tape, re-seated the SCSI cable, moved the drive to a
different Sun, no luck.  Called the vendor and he said to send it back,
it's only 6 months old and still under warranty.  The other Exabyte works
like a champ.

The Exabyte has an internal RAM buffer, when the buffer is full the block
is written to tape.  I suspect this is why you get the error 753 feet into
the tape, thats the end of the first block (this is a guess, I didn't
check it out).  I did verify the error occurred before any blocks got
written to tape.

jim

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
From: mb@cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard)
Subject: Re: BNU uucico broken ?
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:51:16 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-21324]: thoth

In article <1504@ocpt.ccur.com> pechter@ocpt.ccur.com (Bill Pechter) writes:
>In article <1992Jul22.174200.14251@cs.tulane.edu> mb@cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard) writes:
>>Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-14147]: thoth
>>
>>I am trying to switch over from BSD UUCP to BNU UUCP on a 9815 running
>>OSx 5.1a.  However, whatever I do with the .att uucico, regardless of
>>what arguments I give it, it just exits immediately.  Does anyone have
>>a working copy that they can make available to me via ftp?
>
>I saw the same thing.  Run it from an ATT shell and i'll bet it works.
>Boy, did that kill me when I was teaching UUCP at Pyramid.
>
>Try the ATT shell and let me know what happens.

Yes, you are right.  But it is not that it needs the ATT universe, but rather
the correct search path (/usr/.attlib/uucp, not /usr/.ucblib/uucp) to find
the Systems file.  It would have been nice if it would have printed a "no
Systems file" or "invalid system" message.  But Sun's UUCP acts the same if
the Systems file is missing, so I guess that's standard for HDB.
-- 
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From: pechter@ocpt.ccur.com (Bill Pechter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: BNU uucico broken ?
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:16:33 GMT
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp., Information Systems, Oceanport, NJ

In article <1992Jul22.174200.14251@cs.tulane.edu> mb@cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard) writes:
>Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-14147]: thoth
>
>I am trying to switch over from BSD UUCP to BNU UUCP on a 9815 running
>OSx 5.1a.  However, whatever I do with the .att uucico, regardless of
>what arguments I give it, it just exits immediately.  Does anyone have
>a working copy that they can make available to me via ftp?


I saw the same thing.  Run it from an ATT shell and i'll bet it works.
Boy, did that kill me when I was teaching UUCP at Pyramid.  

Try the ATT shell and let me know what happens.

Bill
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From: maschepe@THAMA1.APGEA.ARMY.MIL ("Michael A. Schepers")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Untamo on the Pyramid
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:07:31 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Hi,

     Has anyone out there been able to get a PD software package called
     'untamo' compiled on a Pyramid running OSx5.1a.  If so, can you
     please send me a copy of the source?

     If not, does anyone know of a nicely behaved PD software package
     that will kill processes that hace exceeded a certain idle limit.
     Must have logging capabilities and an exception list.

Thanks in advance,
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From: usenet@crd.ge.com (Required for NNTP)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: HP95LX: small font terminal?
Date: 30 Jul 92 01:53:43 GMT
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center

In article <1992Jul29.154318.20921@usho93.hou281.chevron.com> hwcco@chevron.com (Bill Corea) writes:
>>In article <l70oclINNlfn@news.bbn.com> jjd@BBN.COM (James J
>Dempsey) writes:
>>Has anyone seen a terminal emulator for the HP95LX which
>displays more
>>than 16 lines x 40 chars at the same time?
>>
>.......
>>usenet@crd.ge.com (Required for NNTP) writes:
>>There is a display shell available on Compuserve, and perhaps,
>>eddie, that allows display of an 80 x 24 screen (or almost that
>>much).
>
>How about a file name? I couldn't find anything in the HP forum on
>Compuserve.
>
.............


The 80x24 shell is part of a package of 4 or 5 shells with small and large
characters. The aechive is called FNTSHL.ZIP. It is in the HPHAND forum
on Compuserve. Sorry for the confusion.

Vic Roberts
GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY
roberts@crd.ge.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: ematias@dgp.toronto.edu (Edgar Matias)
Subject: Re: Typing on the AgendA
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:03:19 GMT


>The company has certainly performed speed tests, and certainly in
>an experimental setting.
>...  As far as I
>have been able to find out, the company has never chosen to formally
>publish these results, but they are felt to show that the performance

Hm.  That's very interesting.  Do you know if they readily release the
results to the public?  If so, I would be *extremely* interested in seeing
them.  We were thinking of testing the Microwriter's chording scheme here
at the University of Toronto.  One of the prof's (Bill Buxton) has had one
for about 10 years.

>What we do claim is that this mechanism makes it possible
>to do text-entry at a respectable speed for non-clerical-typist people
>while on the train, driving, in the dark, upside down, with one hand
>and so on.  Different sort of argument, I think.

Exactly right.  Chord keyboards are very good for those environments.

>other hand, we suggest also that a person with equal competence on the
>two types of keyboard will find the chord keyboard better, faster and
>more comfortable.

I'm afraid I can't agree with you on this one.  "More comfortable" is 
probably true.  "Faster" I'm not so sure about.  The trouble with chord
keyboards is that your fingers can only prepare for one chord at a time,
whereas a QWERTY allows many fingers to be moving concurrently in preparation
for the next letter to be typed.  It's a serial vs. parallel thing.

>a different set of chord sequences which
>codes words and syllables, called 'Microtyping' which goes some way
>to tackling this problem.

Good.  QWERTY keyboard manufacturers should look into doing the same thing.
Needless to say they won't, of course...

Edgar
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: warren@cs.stanford.edu (Mark A. Warren)
Subject: Re: HP95LX or Sharp PC 3000 ? Available in the SF Bay area ?
Organization: Stanford, CS Dept.
	<1992Jul28.144241.7520@linus.mitre.org>
Date: 29 Jul 92 22:05:31


In article <1992Jul28.144241.7520@linus.mitre.org> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:

   Yeah, but where can you get one?

Educalc. 1-800-677-7001 8a-5p PST for info, 1-800-535-9650 for orders
only. $869, but out of stock on July 29. Should be more coming in soon.

Mark

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: mikek@col.hp.com (Mike Karin)
Subject: HP95LX Graphics and Power Usage
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:33:23 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

I have seen several programs claim that they use text mode to conserve
power.  Could someone explain the difference in power usage between
graphics and text display modes?


Mike Karin
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Colorado Springs Division
mikek@col.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: toms@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Thomas Spohrer)
Subject: Re: Reliability of HP95LX?
Summary: Me too
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:52:06 GMT

Once I had problems with kermit transfers also.  I traced it to the battery
checking utility provided with an ACE memory card. (B-CURSOR or something
like that).  It seems that with this program running in the background
the 95LX can't keep up with the data so it gets or sends a lot of bad
packets (NAKs).


-- 

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From: tim@sinix.UUCP (Tim Bissell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Microwriter Chording Patents
Date: 29 Jul 92 11:30:33 GMT
Organization: SNI AG Muenchen, STO XS

In article <memo.532816@cix.compulink.co.uk> jeremiah@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>
>There are also lots of things which people have hopefully released
>into the public domain which have sunk without trace.  Although in
>fact they do quite well at the moment, look at the trouble the FSF
>have had with the acceptance of the GNU C software.  I have seen many
>heated discussions on comp.unix.* about the reasons that most
>corporates don't, and _will_not_ use something that is PD precisely
>because it is PD.  The GNU copyleft leaves most corporate legal
>advisers with the shakes for weeks afterwards !
>

Surely that is to do with the nature of the copyleft and nothing to do
with the non-proprietary nature of the software.  Anyway GCC was
adopted as THE standard compiler by: NeXT in 1988, Data General (for
the Aviion) in 1990 and Tadpole Technology in 1989.  SunSoft is now
actively promoting GCC for Solaris 2.0 systems, now that Sun have
unbundled the C compiler.

Tim.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: jimbys@cco.caltech.edu (James V. Bys)
Subject: TINY organizer/LARGE memory
Summary: Looking for a front-pocket sized organizer with lots of memory
Keywords: organizer memos tiny
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 03:13:46 GMT

I am not sure if this it the exactly correct newsgroup for this request
but have not been able to find a better one. 

There are now many personal and business organizers on the market.  I
have not found one that matches very many of my criteria.

Here is what I want:

Required: very small profile, needs to fit in front jeans pocket.
  Ideal: fits in wallet.
  Ideal: very flat.
  Ideal: can withstand pressure of being in back pocket.
  Ideal: screen larger than 24 characters
  Ideal: fold open keyboard for faster typing.

Required: Has "lots" of memory.  >= 8K characters
  Ideal: >= 64K characters

Required price: <$500

Required functionality: Can enter text.
  Ideal: Can organize text by categories.
  Ideal: Can search for substrings in the text

I do not want any other functionality.  This unit does not have to have a
calculator, metric converter, scheduler, alarm, computer interface ...

It is intended solely for entering notes to myself.

The Seiko Instruments SII Personal Organizer and Executive Organizer are
at least in the ballpark but they have memory, size, and flatness limitations.

Does anyone know of a unit that matches better?

Is this out of the range of current technology or interest?

I will be happy to summarize if this request generates any interest.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: jeremiah@cix.compulink.co.uk (Jonathan Allen)
Subject: Re: Microwriter Chording Patents
Reply-To: jeremiah@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:37:41 +0000

In: <6971@lib.tmc.edu> Jay Maynard wrote:
> In article <memo.532817@cix.compulink.co.uk>
>       jeremiah@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
> > But there is one big difference between everone else in the
> > market, HP95 included, which is that YOU CANNOT TYPE on ANY of the
> > others...

> This sure is news to me. I find myself doing more and more text
> pounding on my 95 as time goes by. The keyboard does require
> adaptation, but far less than a chord keyboard would ...

With respect, you are not qualified to make such a statement in
authoratitive sense unless you have actually tried microwriting.
Have you ?

As David Kennard said, lots of the portable machines have enough
power and flexibility to be used outside their specifications or
even optimum operating areas.  Just because you have managed to
reach an adequate typing speed (for you) on your 95, and like its
other features enough to make it worth the effort, doesn't necessarily
make it either the right or the best tool for the job.

We don't have a windowing multi-tasking operating system like the
Psion Series 3, or the PC compatibility that the 95 has, but we
don't claim to either.  All Microwriter have said is that our
chording keyboard layout and mnemonic chord sequences make learning
and maintaining rapid text-entry under difficult conditions quicker
and easier.

Jonathan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: boebert@sctc.com (Earl Boebert)
Subject: Dynalink or Solectek for 95LX?
Organization: SCTC
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 17:18:53 GMT

Well, I went looking at the HP95LXs today; target application is
reading mail and news while on the road.  The salesdroid was what
you would expect, so naturally I have a few questions:

1: I gather that the cable sequence is HP <-> DB9 through the adapter
cable, then DB9 <-> RS232 through the cable from the connectivity pack.
Is this right?

2: The store carried two pocket modems: the Dynalink DS92P and Solectek.
Anybody every use one of these with an HP95?

3: Is the built in com function a terminal emulator or will I have to
run something like Procomm as an application?  If so, do I have to
spring for a data card?

4: Is $579 for a 1 meg 95 a high/low/medium price?

Thanks,

Earl

Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Subject: Re: Microwriter Chording Patents
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:19:08 GMT

In article <memo.534660@cix.compulink.co.uk> jeremiah@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>
>We don't have a windowing multi-tasking operating system like the
>Psion Series 3, or the PC compatibility that the 95 has, but we
>don't claim to either.  All Microwriter have said is that our
>chording keyboard layout and mnemonic chord sequences make learning
>and maintaining rapid text-entry under difficult conditions quicker
>and easier.

And that you'll get a neato way cool flamefest to wade through on CSP if somebody
posts about chording w/out your firm's approval...(1/2 :) )

Ahem...now that we've all played 'my lawyer can beat up yours', can we get back
to the REAL c.s.p. ?
---Steve
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From: raan@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (Raan Young)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:38:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Freemacs 1.6a for the 95
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops


PS -- I'll also be posting this package to various ftp sites, as soon as I
find out how to do that (Everett, where are you?  You go home too early.)

Raan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops

Robert L. Dahlen writes

> I am trying to use the Connectivity Pack for the HP 95lx on a Novell
> Netware workstation that does NOT have a physical local hard disk.
> After typing APP95 and choosing ALT-2 (filer) the machine gives an
> error message "File Creation Error - Press ESC to continue".  Pressing
> ESC gives the error message "Run-time error R6003 - Interger Divide by 0".

APP95 seems to only want to look at disc volume C: in the filer.  If you have 
a floppy drive you could try providing volume C: via a subst command
    subst c: a:\
or provide volume C: as a network drive if your network software supports such
a feature.  
                                     - Phil -


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