HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: YOUCKR@Meena.CC.URegina.CA (192503133)
Subject: re: uuencoder
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 06:08:03 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24
Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Sask., Canada

>YOUCKR@Meena.CC.URegina.CA (192503133) wrote in
><1993Jan02.043134.492137@sue.cc.uregina.ca>:
> 
>| Can anyone tell me where I can get a UUENCODER or a UUDECODER for the c64 or
>| c128?
>| Perhaps on a FTP site?
>| Thanks!
> 
>Look for uuxfer-64 on cco.caltech.edu under the /pub/rknop directory.  Robert
>Knop maintains an archive there.

Well I looked there and I could not find it any directories. Perhaps someone
could put it on there? 

>| BTW this is the first time I have been able to post a msg on usenet.
> 
>Congratulations, and welcome in.

How long you been Commodore Computing?
From: BJuliano@rm42.ucc.uconn.edu (Bryan Juliano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ridge
Subject: I need a Termdef!
Date: 23 Dec 92 20:12:32 GMT
Organization: University of Connecticut Computing Center


     Hi, I recently aquired a Ridge 4200 from Kevin Dowd.  I have been 
unable to find the correct termdef for the Prime terminal model PT-200.  I 
am unfamiliar with i although I belive it is a VT-100 compatible.  The vt-
100 termdef does wierd things when I use vi, so I come to you.

  On a more general note, I am new to the machines and would appreciate 
having som feed back and suggestions from all you vetrans, speciffically any 
text or FAQs to help me along!


Thank You,

J. Bryan Juliano
UConn Residence Hall
Network Administrator
From: hdavison@cuyp.Utrecht.NCR.COM (Hugh Davison)
Newsgroups: ncr.misc,comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Wavelan drivers for Windows for Workgroups?
Keywords: wavelan workgroups
Date: 24 Dec 92 09:08:58 GMT
Organization: NCR Wireless Communications Network Division Utrecht

marksp@ncrsea.Seattle.NCR.COM (marksp) writes:

#A while ago I saw an announcement that wavelan was being supported under
#Windows for Windows.  I have some old wavelan boards, so I got W4W, expecting
#(hoping?) that the wavelan driver would be included. It wasn't.

#Next I tried the NCR tech support BB in Clemson.  A file called w4w.exe
#which sounded like what I wanted was described in a readme, but w4w.exe
#itself was no where to be found.

#Does anyone out there know where I can get the necessary files?  Also,
#from anyone using wavelan+w4w, how well do they go together?

#P-)

#     +----- Peter Marks, NCR Seattle Technology Center -----+
#     | 15307 NE 202nd Street, Woodinville, Washington 98072 |
#     |       voice:(206)489-0501    fax:(206)489-0601       |
#     +------------------ marks@halcyon.com -----------------+


The file W4W.EXE was uploaded to the Clemsom BBS yesterday (Dec 23) at
around 11:00 EST. You can also find it on Microsoft's BBS (Tel. 
206 936-6735) under filename WAVELN.EXE. The file is self-extracting
and contains a README.TXT file which should give you all the 
information you need.
 
Apologies for any inconvenience you were caused!  
-- 
Hugh Davison, Publications, NCR WCND-Utrecht, The Netherlands 
Tel +31 3402 76536, Fax +31 3402 39125     hugh.davison@utrecht.NCR.COM
From: ahby@uiunix.ui.org (Shane McCarron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Using SMTP mail under SVR4.0
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:49:08 GMT
Organization: UNIX International, Parsippany, NJ  07054

We are using SVR4.0 release 2.0 on a 3445.  We just recently connected 
to the Internet, and have configured our system, which is our
mailhost, to use mailsurr/smtpqer/smtp to deliver mail via the
Internet.  We are using DNS, and it is working correctly.

The problem is that the smtp program does not correctly attempt to
deliver messages to alternate mx forwarders when the primary mx
forwarder for a given site is unreachable.  Specifically, if I attempt
to send mail to user@pyramid.com (for example), there are several MX
forwarders available:

pyramid.com     preference = 0, mail exchanger = sword.eng.pyramid.com
pyramid.com     preference = 100, mail exchanger = gossip.pyramid.com
pyramid.com     preference = 101, mail exchanger = bertha.pyramid.com
Authoritative answers can be found from:
sword.eng.pyramid.com   inet address = 129.214.214.10
gossip.pyramid.com      inet address = 129.214.1.101
bertha.pyramid.com      inet address = 129.214.1.100
NS.UU.NET       inet address = 137.39.1.3
BERT.PYRAMID.COM        inet address = 129.214.3.2

Unfortunately, sword.eng.pyramid.com is unreachable:

% ping sword.eng.pyramid.com
ICMP Host Unreachable from gateway Pyramid-gw.ALTER.NET (137.39.51.2)
 for icmp from dionysus (192.203.65.102) to sword.eng.pyramid.com (129.214.214.10)

However, gossip.pyramid.com is reachable:

% ping gossip.pyramid.com
gossip.pyramid.com is alive

When /usr/lib/mail/surrcmd/smtp attempts to deliver a message to
pyramid.com, and run in debug mode, it produces the following output:

buildmxlist got 290
buildmx rcode 0 ancount 3 qdcount 1 aa 0
MXsave sword.eng.pyramid.com
MXsave gossip.pyramid.com
MXsave bertha.pyramid.com
add 129.214.214.10 (sword.eng.pyramid.com)
add 129.214.1.101 (gossip.pyramid.com)
add 129.214.1.100 (bertha.pyramid.com)
Try <129.214.214.10.0.25>
Try <129.214.1.101.0.25>
Try <129.214.1.100.0.25>
No route to host

Clearly, the second try above should have succeeded. 

Our guess is that the TLI based smtp software is not correctly
attempting to contact alternate MX forwarders when the primary is
unavailable.  Any assistance in further diagnosing and repairing this
problem would be greatly appreciated.
-- 
Shane P. McCarron			ATT:	+1 201 263-8400 x232
Project Manager				UUCP:	s.mccarron@ui.org
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ncr:553 comp.sys.att:2696 comp.sys.novell:10746
From: marksp@ncrsea.Seattle.NCR.COM (marksp)
Newsgroups: ncr.misc,comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Wavelan drivers for Windows for Workgroups?
Keywords: wavelan workgroups
Date: 23 Dec 92 09:06:01 GMT
Organization: NCR Seattle Technology Center

A while ago I saw an announcement that wavelan was being supported under
Windows for Windows.  I have some old wavelan boards, so I got W4W, expecting
(hoping?) that the wavelan driver would be included. It wasn't.

Next I tried the NCR tech support BB in Clemson.  A file called w4w.exe
which sounded like what I wanted was described in a readme, but w4w.exe
itself was no where to be found.

Does anyone out there know where I can get the necessary files?  Also,
from anyone using wavelan+w4w, how well do they go together?

P-)

     +----- Peter Marks, NCR Seattle Technology Center -----+
     | 15307 NE 202nd Street, Woodinville, Washington 98072 |
     |       voice:(206)489-0501    fax:(206)489-0601       |
     +------------------ marks@halcyon.com -----------------+
Newsgroups: ncr.misc,comp.sys.ncr
From: marks@halcyon.com (Peter Marks)
Subject: Re: Wavelan drivers for Windows for Workgroups?
Keywords: wavelan workgroups
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:35:14 GMT

marksp@ncrsea.Seattle.NCR.COM (marksp) writes:

>Next I tried the NCR tech support BB in Clemson.  A file called w4w.exe
>which sounded like what I wanted was described in a readme, but w4w.exe
>itself was no where to be found.

It's there now.  Thanks.

P-)

-- 
     +----- Peter Marks, NCR Seattle Technology Center -----+
     | 15307 NE 202nd Street, Woodinville, Washington 98072 |
     |       voice:(206)489-0501    fax:(206)489-0601       |
     +------------------ marks@halcyon.com -----------------+
From: rey@safn2 (rey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Need correct media for Cipher QIC Tower 1632 streamer.
Keywords: tape media
Date: 30 Dec 92 19:10:27 GMT
Organization: SAF Customer Service, Atlanta GA


I have revived a Tower 1632 (PMC II xp upgrade installed).
I am getting write error 5 on the tapes, after 10000 or so blocks.


The tape drive is a cipher QIC streamer that came with the box in 1985.
What is the correct media? I used to buy these from "NCR Direct".
The most recent NCR catalog only shows 3M tapes for the Tower xp.
DC600A. I bought these, and am having limited success.

Out of the box I had to return 2 for degausing to 3M. Only one
worked when they came back.

I got some full backups done; but now I have 5 tapes that all give write
errors somewhere on the tape. Kinda of a slow failure rate over a month
in which I moved the box off site. I did get
clean backups a time or two from these DC600A tapes.

Do I have the correct media? I cleaned the head before the move.
Do I need to clean it again? Is there likely something wrong with
the drive? It passes in service diagnostics OK; but I do not try
to write a whole tape with in service diagnostics.

Thanks
-- 
Reynolds McClatchey (Southern Aluminum Finishing Co, Atlanta, GA, USA)
Architectural Aluminum. Custom Fabrication. Paint, Powder Coating, Anodizing.
MCImail 414-2935  Voice 404-355-1560  Fax 404-350-0581
uunet!safn2!rey			KD4SIJ				rey@saf.com
From: darrell@eeocdt.UUCP (Darrell Tschakert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: HOW MUCH CPIO DATA FITS ON THIS DAT TAPE DRIVE??
Keywords: cpio, DAT, NCR
Date: 29 Dec 92 20:41:35 GMT
Organization: Equal Employment Opportunity Comm., Washington D.C.

Good day,

The agency for which I work has an NCR 850 with a SCSI DAT tape drive
connected to it. The tape drive has the following written on the side:
		NCR
		CLASS	6091
		MODEL	2001
		SERIAL	46-19774809

We use this tape drive to back up our system once per week. 
I would like to use cpio with with the "-o[...]CV" option which requires
a capacity value specified in bytes. 

The question this:
	Using cpio, how many 512 byte blocks will fit onto a
	365 foot DAT tape in the above mentioned tape drive.
	Or more generally how many bytes per foot will fit onto the 
	tape using cpio?

Please email replies to me.

Thanks.

>> Darrell Tschakert			   >> Phone:     	   >>
>> Equal Employment Opportunity Commission >>    (202) 663-4436	   >>
>> 1801 L Street N.W.			   >> Email to		   >>
>> Washington D.C. 20507		   >> uunet!eeocdt!darrell >>


Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: j.cook@primerd.prime.com (C. James Cook)
Subject: Re: X Windows on 50-Series
Organization: Prime Computer R&D
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:39:27 GMT

markd@werple.apana.org.au (Mark Delany) writes:

> Tell me something. I can understand the philosophical differences
> regarding (say) Module II vs PLP, but I really struggle to understand
> why all that energy went into both SPL *and* PLP. I found the
> differences vastly more annoying than useful.
> 
> At the time people were vehement, but surely much of the argument was
> nits which could have been solved?

The PLP vs SPL debate never became a war.  There were strong arguments based
mostly on questions of optimization.

PLP was written by Russ Barbour in the late 70's as a project to enable him
to do a Master's Degree project.  SPL is based on the PL1 subset-G compiler
with some full PL1 additions (either do/while or do/until) plus some Prime
extensions, but minus PL1 I/O.

PLP produced better code than SPL.  However, the PLP compiler has bugs and
suffers maintainability problems (remember: these products are not supported
for customer use). PLP also suffers from symbol table limits.  SPL is much 
more maintainable, has an essentially unlimited symbol table, and has had a
lot of work in the optimizer and code generator.  (Some day I have to run
one last code size comparison).

> On a tangent, you may want to see the old discussions re 64-bit
> addressing in comp.arch, one suggestion was that every data bit in the
> universe would be potentially visible in one huge address space! The
> mind boggles really.

If you are a 50-series instruction set guru, you will notice the three word
pointer format first defined with the P400 in the 70's has the capability to 
address down to the bit level.  One wonders how far in this direction the 
architects or instruction set designers might have headed if things had been 
different...

Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: tabo@hitech.com (Tony Abo)
Subject: X Windows on 50-Series
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 06:15:09 GMT


   From: Denis Keal (Software Technical Support)  <DENIS_KEAL@PR1MEA.Prime.COM>
   Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 13:37:44 +1300
   Sender: ListServer@Blx-A.Prime.COM (Prime Netherlands ListServer v1.14)
   Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM

   Merry Christmas one and all,
			       I believe the project to port Unix to the
   50series was called project Maori (New Zealand's *native* people).

   Cheers,
   Denis.
   (New Zealand)
   Std.disclaimer


...Haere Ra Maori...


	...Haere Ra Prime...


------------------------------------------------------------

Tony Abo
Hitech Systems, Inc.
1964 Westwood Blvd. # 435
Los Angeles, CA 90025

Internet: tabo@hitech.com
Voice:    (310) 475 3210
Fax:      (310) 474 0655

This is my clever little saying at the end of my mail messages
because everyone else seems to have one.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: j.cook@primerd.prime.com (C. James Cook)
Subject: Re: X Windows on 50-Series
Organization: Prime Computer R&D
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 19:53:38 GMT

markd@werple.apana.org.au (Mark Delany) writes:
> j.cook@primerd.prime.com (C. James Cook) writes:
> >markd@werple.apana.org.au (Mark Delany) writes:
> I vaguely recall that at one stage (and for reasons I don't know) that
> SPL could not be used for ring0 code.

The proper SPL runtime library routines had to be determined and added to 
Primos before SPL could be used for ring 0 coding.  This has been done.
So long as you obey good coding rules to avoid compiler generated calls
to P$ANY2, etc., things are fine.


> >If you are a 50-series instruction set guru, you will notice the three word
> >pointer format first defined with the P400 in the 70's has the capability to 
> >address down to the bit level.
> 
> I'm not, but I remember. Practically, I think the subsequent
> overloading of this extension bit as a character address for IX was a
> better choice since prior to this there was no real character
> addressing available.

Not true. Setting the extension bit and adding the third word to indicate an
eight bit offset gave you character addressing.  It worked just fine. IX-mode
chose to redefine the extension bit as indicating an odd byte address without
the need for the third word.

Jim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: R.KITTREDGE@MD-B.Prime.COM (Roland Kittredge - Marketing 508-620-2800 x4666)
Subject: UPDATE ON SEQUOIA COMPUTER
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:23:36 GMT


Date  Name                 Volume    Hi/Ask   Low/Bid     Last  Change Update
----  ----------------     ------    ------   -------   ------  ------ ------    ----
12/15 SEQUOIA SYS INC       2850      2.500     2.313    2.344  -0.031   3:56*
12/18 SEQUOIA SYS INC        305      1.875     1.750    1.750  -0.125  10:58
12/21 SEQUOIA SYS INC        556      2.000     1.500    1.625  -0.063  11:57*

 1 RTf  12/15 1029  Sequoia Systems <SEQSE.O> gets new CEO

    MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Dec 15, Reuter - Sequoia Systems Inc  said Cornelius P.
    McMullan was promoted to president and chief executive officer, effective
    immediately.
    McMullan joined the company in November as vice president of worldwide
    sales and strategic accounts.
    The position had previously been filled on an interim basis.

    Note: If you remember, McMullan was the President and GM of the Computer
          Systems Business Unit of Prime Computer, Inc. and the only employee
          of COPM, the company that tried to buy PI/open.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
RTf  12/21 0929  NASDAQ halt - Sequoia Systems Inc <SEQSE.O>, news
                               pending, last sale 1-11/16
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RTf  12/21 0952  Sequoia Systems<SEQSE.O>explores financing options

    MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Dec 21, Reuter - Sequoia Systems Inc said that the
financial advisor Broadview Associates LP has been retained to advise the
company in connection with its pursuit of a sale of all or part of Sequoia.
    Under the terms of the agreement, Sequoia said Broadview will contact
potential acquirers to ascertain their interest in investing in, or acquiring
Sequoia, participate in negotiations on behalf of Sequoia, and make
recommendations for possible transactions with potential investors.
    It said financing for Sequoia is necessary because of reduced revenues and
operating losses during the past two quarters, and its default under its bank
credit arrangement and liquidity difficulties.
 REUTER
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RTf  12/21 1018  NASDAQ resumption - Sequoia Systems <SEQSE.O>
                                     first sale 2, up 5/16 from halt
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: Al@TURBO.Kean.EDU (Al Costanzo)
Subject: Happy Holidays
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Organization: Kean College of New Jersey
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:13:56 GMT

(annotation added by AL)

Hello Everyone,  Happy Holidays.

Below is my christmas card to you all.

If a mailer did not mung it all up on the way to you, save it into a file
and then slist it on a Prime PT250, PT200, PST100 or a VT100 terminal
(sorry I did not test it with others)

Regards and best wishes.

Al Costanzo


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: JOSE@SWWA1.Prime.COM (Jose F. Lomba, 714-989-3155)
Subject: Re: LHitraot
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:31:36 GMT

Miles, hasta luego my friend.

Wish you a whole lot of luck to you and your family.
All these years have been fun.
When you come down to SC please look for us.

Take care.

-Jose
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: R.KITTREDGE@md-b.prime.com
Subject: DEC Reorganization
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:20:53 GMT

OTC  12/22 1626  DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP. ANNOUNCES CUSTOMER-FOCUSED ...

MAYNARD, MA (DEC. 22) BUSINESS WIRE - Robert B. Palmer, president and chief
executive officer of Digital Equipment Corp., Tuesday announced a restructuring
of the company's operations into nine business units to bring the company closer
to its customers and add momentum to Digital's return to profitable growth.
   Palmer also named Digital senior managers to head five of the nine business
units, and announced that managers will be appointed to lead the four other
business units shortly.   All nine will report directly to Palmer.
   The five appointed business unit leaders are: Lawrence P. Cabrinety, Vice
President, Components and Peripherals Business Unit    Charles F. Christ, Vice
President, Storage Business Unit Frank McCabe, Vice President, Discrete
Manufacturing & Defense Industries Business Unit John J. Rando, Vice President,
Multivendor Customer Services Business Unit Willow B. Shire, Vice President,
Health Industries Business Unit
   The units whose leaders will be appointed shortly are: Personal Computer
Business Unit Financial, Professional and Public Services Industries Business
Unit Communications, Education and Entertainment Industries Business   Unit
Consumer and Process Manufacturing Industries Business Unit
   "These organizations will be responsible for understanding customer needs and
providing solutions to meet those needs," said Palmer, who took over as
Digital's President and CEO on October 1. "Collectively, they will have all of
Digital's worldwide profit responsibility."
   Five of the nine business units are defined by natural customer groupings of
industries.   "They include industries in which Digital has been successful over
the years, as well as industries targeted for significant growth," noted Palmer.
They are Health Industries; Discrete Manufacturing & Defense Industries;
Communications, Education and Entertainment Industries; Consumer and Process
Manufacturing Industries; and Financial, Professional and Public  Services
Industries. The other four units -- Personal Computers; Components and
Peripherals; Storage; and Multivendor Customer Services -- are defined by the
nature of their products and services.   "Each unit is designed to better
capitalize on Digital's core competencies and leverage our technology in the
marketplace," said Palmer. Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in
Maynard, Massachusetts, is the leading worldwide supplier of networked  computer
systems, software and services.   Digital pioneered and leads the industry in
interactive, distributed and multivendor computing.   Digital and its business
partners deliver the power to use the best integrated solutions - from desktop
to data center - in open information environments.
   CONTACT:   Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard Mark Fredrickson, 508/493-4930
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: R.KITTREDGE@MD-B.Prime.COM (Roland Kittredge - Marketing 508-620-2800 x4666)
Subject: Happy Holidays
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:27:20 GMT

                 HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR

From the staff and employees of Computervision Services, may we wish each
and everyone of you, and your families, a Joyous Holiday Season and a New
Year filled with Peace and Happiness.

It's been a pleasure doing busines with you this year, and this seems like
the perfect time to thank you and to wish you and yours a very happy
holiday season.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime