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From: haseka@aix.rpi.edu (Atilla A Hasekioglu)
Subject: Re:multimedia
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:52:56 GMT

I wrote before:

I am looking for a multimedia software that compresses images and has mailing 
options. This should be in Xwindows. I have images in many formats.
I would like to be able to change their formats and have printouts. I also
would like to be able to view them. The software I am looking for should
have all these options. I also would like to have the option to decompress and
view the image from where it is sent by mail, so this will be a two sided
software that can be used both by the sender and receiver  side.
  If anybody can help me,I will very much appreciate it.



I found the multimedia software I was looking for from a colleague, if
anybody is interested.It is very useful. It is for SUN and performs the
compression in JPEG. It has file conversion facilities in GIF, PPM,PGM,
TIFF, SUN raster, XBM, XWD, FAX G3 formats. It has also an option to
change from these formats to PS format and you can later print it.
It also mails the compressed image by email. At the other end the receiver
can make necessary format changes and view the image. My colleague says
he is very happy with this product, and it is indeed very useful.
For the interested you can find this software from :
IBS
1223 Peoples Ave.
Troy, NY 12180
Tel : 518 276 4770
Fax: 518 276 6380

 The name of the software is MultiMailv1.0.
From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: restarting hung daemons
Date: 2 Sep 1992 15:31:42 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: maverick.ksu.ksu.edu

I just thought of this today as I was killing and restarting a daemon
that was no longer doing it's job:

Wouldn't it be nice if we could just kill and restart people when they
quit doing their jobs?  Just think how well, and how fresh, the
government would be.  Of course, I bet every single senator and
congress person would figure out a way to get stuck in disk wait so
that they would never have to do any work and they couldn't be
killed without rebooting the country.

++Brett;
From: geremia@legolas (Peter P. Geremia)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Tool to capture keystrokes
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:27:36 GMT
Reply-To: geremia@ctron.com
Organization: None whatsoever

Hi All,

	Does anyone know of a way or a tool to capture stdin to a file
while allowing input to a running program?


			help would be appreciated...


				Thanks... Peter Geremia
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From: rlyle@nl.oracle.com (The Wizard of Ozje - Garf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Broken ps
Keywords: kmem kernel
Date: 1 Sep 92 09:46:19 GMT
Organization: Oracle Europe

I've just broken /bin/ps on my Solbourne portable Sun.  I reinstalled a tar
archive of the /usr and /var partitions after a head crash, but now ps refuses
to acknowledge the kernel.  Error message follows:

ps: /dev/mem: read error on ktextseg: Bad address
ps: could not read kernel VM

This may or may not be a Solbourne specific thing.  I have a generic SunOS
compatible kernel.  OS/MP 4.0Da_Export (GENERIC/root)

The ps -U in /etc/rc also fails with exactly the same error message.  "config"
crashes after make depend so I can't completely rebuild a new GENERIC kernel.

Any ideas netters?


--Rob.


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.admin
From: sjsobol@wariat.org (Steven J. Sobol)
Subject: Re: The need for an assembler (was: Favorite CPU)
Organization: The Tiny Software Co., via APK Public Access Unix, Cleveland
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 03:52:39 GMT

mark@alsvid.une.edu.au (Mark Garrett Internet: mark@arvak.une.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3859) writes:
>From article <1992Aug18.153559.9595@wheaton.wheaton.edu>, by gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber):
>> 
>> REAL programmers do:
>> 
>> 	copy con program.exe
>
>Real programmers recognize this as MS-DOS and avoid it. Real Programmers
>aren't afraid to code in HEX but will only when there is no other way.

Real programmers would realize that 'copy con program.exe' is impossible
because DOS wouldn't let you enter all values 0-255 from the keyboard 
(at least not using ASCII...)

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Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Monday, 31 Aug 1992 16:25:04 EDT
From: <JORDAN@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Looking for RCS from Purdue

I understand that the computer center at Purdue has written a configuration
management shareware program for UNIX called RCS (Revision Control System)
Anyone know anything about this or who has written it?  Please respond.
From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: mac to unix xmodem transfer
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:46:04 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

In article <1992Aug20.195323.21860@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> pollansw@cse.fau.edu (Warren Pollans) writes:


>I can use some help.  I am unable to successfully transfer files
>from my mac SE to a sunOs machine using the 'sx'/'rx' or 'sb'/'rb'
>commands on the Sun.  Sometimes I encounter transmission errors

>I have no trouble transferring files using Kermit -- I thought that
>the xmodem 1K blocks would be faster.

>Any suggestions would be appreciated.  I have been told that few,
>if any, people have been able to upload via xmodem.

  How are you connecting to the Sun machine? On our system, you connect
to dial-up machines by way of termninal servers. The terminal servers
recognize  control and break characters, so only seven-bit transfer 
protocols work in the default state. On other machines, the servers
make a default connection at 7-bits-even-parity.

    X-, y-, and z-modem are all eight-bit protocals, and Kermit is
a 7-bit protocal. If many users have this problem, something along
the way is only allowing 7 bits.

   All of our servers have commands to enable 8-bit data transfer... 
on one it is "set session passall;" on another it is something like 
"set terminal bits 8." Talk to your site's network admin.
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From: wood@cs.cornell.edu (Mark D. Wood)
Subject: Information requested on Unix management tools
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 12:50:37 GMT


I would like pointers to papers describing Unix management tools, for
example, those using SNMP (or CMOT).  (Or even more experimental
systems).  If kind souls could e-mail to me references, it would be
most appreciated.


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From: stephane@spxtech.qc.ca (Stephane Laroche)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: POSIX drafts, where do I get them?
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:14:31 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Securiplex Technologies Inc., Montreal, Canada
X-Bytes: 390

I'm looking for the 1003.1 and 1003.4 Posix standards.  I know
they're not available on the net but I don't know where to write
to (how much does it cost anyway?).

Can someone send me the address of the Posix committee and/or a
FAX/phone number?

Thank you,


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From: QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Alan Thew)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: nawk/gawk and 8-bit ASCII
Date: 4 Sep 92 09:40:07 GMT
Organization: University of Liverpool

I have a program which needs to test for an 8-bit ASCII value. Neither
nawk/gawk appear to support it (It's not in the documentation and it doesn't
work :-)). I have a simple C program which can be used but to interact
with the C program is problematic.

I can only see one way and I'm hoping that the awk experts out there can
show a more efficient method.

My method:

(variable var8  has 8-bit ASCII in, check8 is the C program, check_out
will have the signed decimal of the first char(s))

print var8 > temp_file
"check8 < temp_file" | getline check_out

There must be a better way....

Thanks.
Alan
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.sys.hp
From: prs@Turing.ORG (Phillip R. Scarr)
Subject: FAX solutions for Unix/Novell shop
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 11:45:17 GMT

We are looking for a "complete" fax solution for Unix and for our Novell
netware server which runs on our HP 9000/827s server.  We have
experimented with the TruFax product from Devcom and that meets our Unix
needs but not our DOS/Windows/Novell needs.  It may very well be that
the product we are looking for does not exist, but here is what we need:

1. The ability to format and fax raw ASCII files which are automatically
extracted from a large database.

2. The ability to quickly fax a note from Unix.

3. The ability to fax from WordPerfect for DOS on a Novell Netware using
either a pop-up utility or embedded codes in the output to direct the
fax.

I am wondering if we should be looking at a Novell based product which
uses Novell print queues since those are the same queues that lp will
use on our system.  Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

	-Phil
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From: ecktons@sirius.byu.edu (Sean Eckton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Looking for rarpd for unix...
Date: 27 Aug 92 22:15:54 GMT
Reply-To: ecktons@sirius.byu.edu (Sean Eckton)


I am looking for RARPD to run on a unix machine.  I have found it in a few  
places but it requires some libraries that I don't have.  It requires some  
libraries in a /pup directory.  Can anyone help me with this?

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: jaf@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (J Anthony Fitzgerald)
Subject: Re: yp (nis) map changes - how do they happen
Keywords: passwd yp nis
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 13:11:51 GMT

In article <janet.714981984@dunnart> janet@cs.uwa.oz.au (Janet Jackson) writes:
>There is a daemon, yppasswdd(8) (at least, it's called that on SunOS4.1.1)
>which passwd(1) talks to.  This daemon does the updating.  It runs on the
>YP master.

This brings up another question for me.  What locking mechanism (if any) does
yppasswdd use for the password file.  It apparently does not use the same as
vipw which uses the creation of a link for locking.  The man page for yppasswdd
(at least on my system SunOS 4.1.2) does not explicitly state whether the
daemon locks the file, however, one note states that the name of the password
file passed to the daemon must not be a link.  Would this restriction be because
the daemon uses flock(2) to lock access to the file?  If so, is flock only
issued around the actual updates?

The reason I ask is because I have written a script for our account
administrator to simplify adding/removing users.  He obtains a list of
courses and students generated from the registrar's data bases on the MVS
system and the script uses this list to add several hundred users at the
start of each term and remove them at the end.

I have been concerned because of the possibility of yppasswdd updating the
password file between the time the script reads in the password and group
files and the rewriting of those files after applying changes.  I have been
assuming that the yppasswdd changes would be quietly lost.  It would be
quite simple to add a perl flock call to the script but I would like to be
assured that this would fix any potential problem.  So far, the scripts seem
to have caused no problem, but it might be a simple case of no one ever having
used yppasswd while the script was running.

I thank you for reading this far.
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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Newsgroup for IRIX
Date: 4 Sep 92 04:22:31 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <Bu0Hnz.267@math.uwaterloo.ca> mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF]) writes:

| Is there not a newsgroup for discussing the IRIX brand of UNIX?  If not,
| where are IRIX issues discussed?

comp.sys.sgi
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From: vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vax)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: mac to unix xmodem transfer
Date: 24 Aug 92 03:53:33 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

>
>I've tested this and the larger packet sizes do save quite a bit of time.
>
>--John
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I've a question that may fit in this group.  I am trying to find a very 
efficient way (read: fast) to transfer files from unix-to-unix over a 2400
baud dial-up line.  When using MS-DOS, I used rz/sz and a local MS-DOS term
program, but now I have Unix, and C-Kermit.  What other communication routes
do I have, esp those with high efficiency?  The connection is local telco
and not usually noisy.  I achieved high rates of xfer with zmodem, but the
MS-DOS world seems a bit ahead with programs like PUMA and others that run
over 99% efficient use of bandwidth (often 239 cps on a 2400 baud line).
    Now, besides uucico and ckermit, what else is there?  I compiled both
rz/sz on both machines, but it seems to want to talk to the tty and not the
modem; is there an easy way for me to use rz/sz?  And, my school has nicely
removed uucico from all their machines, so if I want to use it, I have to
upload and recompile (sigh).  Or something.  Can somebody tell me relative
efficiencies, or tell me how to speed up ckermit and/or uucico to realistic
speeds?
    It seems like ckermit runs about 120cps or something.
    Well, thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: mzimmers@netcom.com (Michael Zimmers)
Subject: Where to ask for advice?
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 02:35:48 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 


I just received my SPARCstation IPX.  This, coupled with my QBlazer modem,
would seem to give me an excellent basis for connecting with the outside
world.  There's just one small problem:  I have absolutely no clue what
I'm doing or where to go for help.

What's the best newsgroup for soliciting information on the best way
to configure my workstation, whether it's worth it to register as an
IP domain, what software I need to get (and how to get it), who might
act as a news feed for me, and so on?  I'm absolutely overwhelmed with
the array of choices and I want to do the right thing, so to speak.

Please email me with any suggestions for the right newsgroup to start
a thread on this.  Any actual advice would also be appreciated.

Thanks...

mpz
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Xref: sparky comp.unix.misc:3377 comp.unix.admin:4697
From: jtb@hacker.Prime.COM ( James Bruner )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Information requested on Unix management tools
Keywords: SNMP CMOT management
Date: 27 Aug 92 01:08:36 GMT
Reply-To: jtb@hacker.Prime.COM
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Distribution: usa
Organization: Prime Computer, Renton, WA

In article <1992Aug26.125037.2183@cs.cornell.edu>, wood@cs.cornell.edu (Mark D. Wood) writes:
|> 
|> I would like pointers to papers describing Unix management tools, for
|> example, those using SNMP (or CMOT).  (Or even more experimental
|> systems).  If kind souls could e-mail to me references, it would be
|> most appreciated.
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|> ....................................................................
|> Mark D. Wood                          wood@cs.cornell.edu (INTERNET)
|> Computer Science / Upson Hall                 moxy@CRNLVAX5 (BITNET)
|> Cornell University / Ithaca, NY 14853                 (607) 255-1149

I would also be interested in hearing what people are using.  What are
the names of some of the canned packages that your using and what its
functionality is.  If the original poster has received any responses
please send me copies of them.

Thanks.

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Xref: sparky comp.unix.misc:3427 comp.sys.mac.misc:15680
From: arends@Yosemite.metaphor.com (Dale M Arends)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Macintosh Emulation on Suns
Keywords: Macintosh Sun Sparc Emulation
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:07:40 GMT
Followup-To: email
Organization: Metaphor Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
Originator: arends@yosemite

Does anyone know of a decent Macintosh Emulation package that runs on
a Sun SPARCstation?

I am currently evaluating Liken from Xcelerated Systems (pretty good
so far) and would like to have a second package to compare against.

If you respond to me via email, I'll post a summary and, after the 
evaluations are completed, I'll post the results.

Thanks,
Dale
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probably aren't interested and maybe don't agree and therefore ...
Xref: sparky comp.unix.misc:3430 alt.religion.computers:607
From: bri@pegasus.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,alt.religion.computers
Subject: Re: The need for an assembler (was: Favorite CPU)
Date: 30 Aug 92 22:18:16 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

>Real programmers would realize that 'copy con program.exe' is impossible
>because DOS wouldn't let you enter all values 0-255 from the keyboard 
>(at least not using ASCII...)

Real programmer would realize that you can enter any charater 0-255
in dos with an alt-keypad combination...
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: john@citr.uq.oz.au (John Gottschalk)
Subject: POSIX question
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:03:47 GMT


Hello all, 

Could anybody send me e-mail listing all the finalised and draft POSIX
standards, with the standard number and a title? 

By the way, what is the appropriate newsgroup to post POSIX questions.
A UNIX newsgroup does not seem right as POSIX is not restricted
to UNIX.



			-- regards, John Gottschalk

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: jdell@nefertiti.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe)
Subject: Re: How to add a suffix to a bunch of files?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 20:20:56 GMT

On Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:36:46 GMT, dchin@tamar.msc.cornell.edu (David W. Chin) said:

> I have occasion to add suffices on a whole bunch of files, like a .1 suffix on
> all files in cat1 (just an example).  What's an elegant way to do it?
> The one I thought of was:

> #!/bin/sh
> cd cat1
> for X in `ls -1`
> 	do
> 	eval "mv $X $X.1"
> 	done

If you are in some variant of csh, I personally use tcsh 6.02

% foreach file (*)
foreach> mv $file $file.1
foreach> end

And that's it.  Pretty much just as good as the Bourne shell version.

John
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: shani@genius.tau.ac.il (Oren Shani)
Subject: Re: List of Cars for Hostnames?
Organization: Tel Aviv University School of Math and CS, ISRAEL
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:02:35 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.001251.23597@datamark.co.nz> thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:
>Hi there,
>
>I need them because all the machines around this office have been
>given car hostnames - with a view to choosing the most suitable for
>each. For example:
>
>	ferrari		RS/6000
>	alfa		RS/6000
>	porsche		RS/6000

Naw... RS/6000 is fast alright but it's too problematic, to be a porsche or even
a ferrari. Alfa is fine though, but the others should have been Lanchia and
uhm... Maybe DeLorian ? Keep the porsche and ferrari for Sparc 10's

>	jaguar		someones fast X terminal
>	lotus		fast handbuilt 486
>	aston		another handbuilt 486
>	cadillac	over-priced and not very impressive Compaq 386
>	trabant		slow Altos 1000
>	skoda		slow old 386sx/16
>	yugo		another 386sx/16
>
 I like the rest of them though....


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