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From: R1004@vmcms.csuohio.edu
Subject: Starlan Problem solved (?)
Organization: CSU
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:36:18 GMT

    Greetings,
 
    I hope this information helps someone else out there - took
me a long time to get the problem solved.  Here goes...
 
 
    This will only help if you are running StarGROUP *and* WIN TCP
on your machine.  The problem was the StarLAN listener croaking
and refusing to come back to life due to a corrupt address of some
sort.
 
    It turns out that my machine's IP address in
/usr/net/nls/tcp/addr was not the same as in /etc/hosts (and
elsewhere?)  The addr file did not get updated when we had
to change IP addresses some time ago.  I never had much of
a problem with TCP/IP inbound or outbound (except for a few
machines I just couldn't talk to - I've not tried those since
the fix went in)  Anyways somehow that was botching up starlan.
The NCR people were at a loss to explain why.
 
   So far I have been unable to mess up the machine, but I'm sure
that will change! 8-)
 
   Hope this helps someone out there.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.lang.perl
From: kmeek@cti.com (Kevin Meek)
Subject: Re: Anyone out there have PERL compiled for the 3B2?
Keywords: perl latest version
Organization: Comprehensive Technologies Int., Inc.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:33:51 GMT

dcb@kopachuk.uucp (David Breneman) writes:

>If anyone knows where this can be had, please post it so we'll all
>know.  I tried compiling what was the newest version last year and
>finally gave up since we have it on another system and I didn't "need"
>it on the 3B2's.  Mr. Wall, what do you have against the 3B2? :-)

We have been using perl on our 3B2/600's for about 2 years now.
I seem to remember having to do some hacking with some of the early
versions ( pre version 4.0 )  But I think it's compiled clean since 
version 4.0.  We are currently running at 4.0 patch 35.

If anyone has any questions about it just drop me a note.

Kevin.
-- 
Kevin Meek 
kmeek@cti.com
From: pstatcw@prism.gatech.EDU (Christopher J. Whaley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: AT&T 6300 PC Help Wanted (Can't read DOS 3.x system disks)
Date: 23 Aug 92 05:15:05 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

The subject line states my problem pretty well.

I cannot seem to be able to get a DOS disk other than 2.11 which
the PC came with, to boot it up.  It appears that the BIOS is 1.1, 
but I cannot tell for sure.  

I have retrieved all of the AT&T 6300 files from the ftp site
129.170.16.4 (available as anonymous ftp).  None of these are
directly applicable to my problem.

Any suggestions out there?  If I do need a new BIOS or other
hardware up-grade, please include an estimate of the cost 
so I won't get screwed when I purchase it locally.

Thank you,


-- 
Christopher J. Whaley                       ******** Ph.D. or Bust ********
School of Psychology  -- Georgia Tech   
Internet: gt3006a@prism.gatech.edu           "Psychology at Georgia Tech?" 
Bitnet:   pstatcw@gitvm1                 "Yes, we do have a graduate program!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.dcom.lans.misc
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: AT&T Stargroup, OS/2 2.0 plus appletalk printer
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:41:22 GMT

We have one set of unix and msdos machines connected via AT&T's
StarGroup network (OSI over 10BaseT), and another set running
OS/2 2.0 with token ring cards. We'd like to let both sets of
machines send jobs to a color postscript that can only accept
input via appletalk or ethertalk on a single interface.  Can
this be done?  Cheaply? 

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: lucio@phyrql.ALT.ZA (Lucio de Re)
Subject: 3b2 implementation of RC clone shell
Organization: MegaByte - Digital Telecommunications
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 15:10:36 GMT

Having been spoilt by the Korn Shell on my 3b1, I felt quite
lost without it on my newly acquired 3b2 so I thought the
clone RC shell would come in handy.

Now the Korn Shell and the RC shell are worlds apart, but both
do a wonderful job of addressing the problems they set out to
solve. I personally find the orthogonality of the RC shell
quite elegant.

Anyway, as you probably know, the clone sources are ANSI C,
and at least on my machine this is a no-no. Between
'unprotoize' from the GCC distribution on a totally different
computer and a considerable amount of manual hacking, I
produced sources that generate a workable shell. If there is
any interest I'll mail these off, enough interest and I'll
post them, very much as is, though.

In passing, I had to hack a rather extraordinary version of
dup2(). I will not accept criticism, but I'd be curious to
know what a proper implementation should look like.

-- 
Lucio de Re
- lucio@phyrql.ALT.ZA --- ...!{frcs,olsa99,undeed}!proxima!phyrql!lucio -
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From: epperson@adobe.com (Mark Epperson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Can I use a different floppy controller????
Date: 19 Aug 92 05:23:28 GMT
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated

I have an original 6300 and want to fix it so my church can use it.  The problem
is that the floppys do not respond.

	1) How can I tell what is wrong with the floppys/cable/controller
	2) Is there some way to disconnect the internal floppys and install a
	   third party floppy controller?
	3) Is there an inexpensive way to upgraed the motherboard to use either
	   1.2 or 1.44 meg floppys?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

- Mark Epperson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: merce@xenitec.on.ca (Jim Mercer)
Subject: Re: why no man command on 3B2/1000
Organization: XeniTec Consulting, Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:36:41 GMT

In article <1992Aug9.120701.17914@rexago8.uucp> hc05@rexago8.uucp (Beirne Konarski) writes:
>pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
>>dougs@david.wheaton.edu (Doug Smith - SGA) writes:
>>>I'm a little new to the 3B2 and I'm wondering why this system has no man
>>>command or man pages.  Should it be here or doesn't AT&T include it?  Is
>>>it available somewhere?
>
>>man is part of the Documenters Workbench, which is unbundled
>>from the rest of Unix.
>
>Check this before going out and spending money.  We had a loaner copy of the
>DWB in and it didn't include man.  I was told by NCR that the man pages were
>part of some other package that did not sell and was discontinued.

i forget the exact details, but with SysVR3.2, AT&T farmed the man pages out
to prentice hall publishers.

at that time you could purchase a set of online man pages for $10K or something
like that.

-- 
[ Jim Mercer   Reptilian Research  merce@iguana.reptiles.org  +1 519 893-6085 ]
[             I don't want to work for a company that has a CIO.              ]
[              Disclaimer! I don't need no stinking Disclaimer!               ]
From: friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Stephen Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Booting errors on 3B2/400
Date: 14 Aug 92 02:06:32 GMT
Organization: Steve's Personal machine / Tustin, CA

I write:
> I have never seen any piece of UNIX that touches the diagnostics
> LED, and I think that it just goes on when the machine shuts down
> in any kind of abnormal way (i.e., the rest button).  It does NOT
> mean that something is wrong.

Greg Woods writes:
> It's been some time, but I can attest that indeed the diagnostic
> light is turned on by system panics.

Yes, but not by UNIX.  It's the monitor that detects that UNIX just
died that turns it on.  What I meant to say (but did poorly) is that
you'll never see the diagnostics light come on while UNIX stays
running.  The green one, however, is under program control and you
can even play with it with shell scripts :-)

     Stephen

-- 
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3b2-kind-of-guy  | I speak for me ONLY |   KA8CMY   | uunet!mtndew!friedl
 
We should re-arm the Russians as long as they promise to take out Washington
From: Bron@cup.portal.com (George Bron Faison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3B2 Porting problem w/CPP
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 18:37:22 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <63657@cup.portal.com> <BstoJF.24H@chinet.chi.il.us>

Thanks to all who responded!  I was able to obtain access to a
3B2 with the version 4.2 compiler and this solved my problem.

Bron
bron@cup.portal.com
voice: (804) 730-1467
From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Wanted: Termcap fpr AT&T's 630 terminal
Date: 18 Aug 1992 18:45:55 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

Does anybody have a termcap entry for the 630 that works under BSD
4.3?  This is one of those multi-window terminals, I would be satisfied
with a terminal description that works with a 24 line window.  Right
now I am using a 630-24 description translated from the terminfo
entry in a SVR4 system, but "vi" doesn't work very well with it.

Thanks in advance.

Xref: sparky comp.sys.att:2026 comp.lang.perl:5313
From: james@dlss2 (James Cummings)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Strike Zone
Keywords: perl latest version
Date: 14 Aug 92 03:28:20 GMT
Organization: RedRock Development

In article <1992Aug12.230116.23737@netlabs.com> lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall) writes:
 |In article <1992Aug11.222043.4152@kopachuk.uucp> dcb@kopachuk.uucp (David Breneman) writes:
 |: Mr. Wall, what do you have against the 3B2? :-)
 |
 |I have nothing personal against the 3B2.  But how would you feel about
 |spending all day carefully putting the ball in the strike zone for a
 |kid that never gets any better at hitting it?
 |
 |Larry

	Ever watch Nolan Ryan pitch, Larry?  Even some of the grown-ups
done't get any better! ;^)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: jeffrey@squid.tram.com (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
Subject: Swap my 3B2 NI (ethernet) card
Organization: Tramway Unix Systems
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 05:56:55 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Summary: NI card for SCSI HA or XDC
Keywords: NI Ethernet SCSI XDC

I have a pair of NI (ethernet) cards in my 3B2/400.  I am using one;
the other is sitting idle, doing nothing.  What I would like to do is
propose a trade of sorts...

I have one NI card, terminator (needed to pass the diagnostics if not
actually attached to an active ethernet transceiver), and all of the
software to drive it.  All you need is the 15 pin AUI drop cable and a
transceiver.  I would like to swap it for one of the following two cards...

a) a SCSI host adapter.  Bonus points if you have the QIC drive that
goes with it - you also will get my old CTC drive and card!
Eventually, I plan on getting a 9-track drive, so this is the route
of preference.  

b) a XDC card with the cables and adapters.  I already have more than
enough disk space, so this is not my preferred swap, but I may cave in
if there's nobody willing to do my first choice.

Of course, I'll also consider a 3B2/600 as even trade :-)

If you're interested, please get back to me.

j
-- 
Jeffrey L. Bromberger ------- System Manager ------- Tramway Unix Systems
jeffrey@squid.tram.com      Anywhere!{van-bc,limbic,icus}!tram!jeffrey
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: asoper@wyvern.twuug.com (Aubrey Soper 422-0950)
Subject: ___NEED_UNIX_FOR_3B2___
Keywords: 3B2
Organization: Tidewater UNIX Users Group
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:31:50 GMT

I just bought a 3B2-400, and I need an operating system
for it.  At the moment, without any software, only the
floppy light comes on briefly when I power it up, so I
would like to obtain something to determine whether the
hardware is functional before buying the operating
system.  It also has a 60 Meg Wangtek tape unit.  Any
help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Aubrey Soper
asoper@azania.twuug.com
From: okellogg@cubenet.sub.org ( )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Looking for Unix-PC software & peripherals
Date: 12 Aug 92 05:40:13 GMT
Distribution: comp


Hi,

for some reason the C compiler (cc) and linker (ld) are missing from the
AT&T 7300 system I recently got.

Can anybody help me on where to find them?

Also, I'd be interested about what application software (preferably
public-domain, or otherwise low-cost) and peripherals (in particular,
larger harddisks) exist for the Unix PC, and where to get these / who
makes them.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Oliver M. Kellogg
					okellogg@salyko.cubenet.sub.org
(if that doesn't work, please try:	okellogg@cubnt3.ucrc.sub.org)
From: dwj@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Daniel W. James)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3B2 SCSI Equipment for sale
Keywords: 3b2 scsi esdi dcm4e
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:51:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix

bill@prijat.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:

>I have never had my 3B2 opened up (although this weekend looks likely
>as I think it needs a real good cleaning.)  Do all 3B2's have a SCSI
>interface or is that another add on feature??  I thought it used MFM
>type disks, but if it is already SCSI, then there is no reason why I
>couldn't up my disk storage now.

>Anybody out there know the answer??

I beleive that our 3B2 uses ESDI? drives (something like that).  The SCSI
is an additional option, not included in the standard configuration (at
least not in the 300/310/400 models).
-- 
_________________________________________________________________________
Some folks try to multiply from sunrise to  |          dwj@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US
Sunset--leave behind more of their kind so  |       ames!pacbell!sactoh0!dwj
no one will forget             -- Level 42  |(This space available for rent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.lang.perl
From: james@dlss2 (James Cummings)
Subject: Re: Anyone out there have PERL compiled for the 3B2?
Keywords: perl latest version
Organization: RedRock Development
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:30:34 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.222043.4152@kopachuk.uucp> dcb@kopachuk.uucp (David Breneman) writes:
 |In article <1992Aug7.192749.27854@squid.tram.com> jeffrey@squid.tram.com (Jeffrey L Bromberger) writes:
 |>I never thought I'd ask for this, but times change...
 |>
 |>I would like to know if anyone has compiled perl (version 2.0 or
 |>later) for the 3B2.  I need it to run the psroff and metaconfig
 |>packages.  If it is available for FTP, please point me at it.  If
 |>someone else has it, just email me and I'll get back to you for it.
 |>Please don't mail it to me without a warning!
 |>
 |
 |If anyone knows where this can be had, please post it so we'll all
 |know.  I tried compiling what was the newest version last year and
 |finally gave up since we have it on another system and I didn't "need"
 |it on the 3B2's.  Mr. Wall, what do you have against the 3B2? :-)

	Larry Wall can answer for himself, but I don't really think
he "has something against 3B2s".... Personally I have 3 of them I'm 
responsible for and ALL of them have Perl 4 at patchlevel 35, so it
CAN be done and it was no big deal.  Granted the compile on the 400
took a lot longer, but that has more to do with memory/horsepower than
the fact that it is a 3B2!

	I can make the offer again...I replied to the original poster..
I have the binaries...I don't mind sharing...but I'm not going to waste
the bandwidth of every machine on the net for it.  I can probably 
arrange to put it on an ftpable site if someone can arrange the permission
to use their machine.  Note because my machines have *my* way of doing
things built in...you may have to create new directories to install
everything in.  For cultural/political reasons I have a non-standard bin
directory for the binaries (and this will make a difference).

James Cummings
james@homey.lonestar.org
From: jack@dsl.pitt.edu (john p. nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: need Starlan 3.2 client and TAP programs
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:01:48 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
Originator: jack@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu

comp.sys.att
  I am running Starlan v 3.2 server (the last pre-Lan Manager version)
on a 6386 under System 5, 3.2.3.  For some reason I never got beyond
starlan client version 3.1, and as a consequence cannot now use DOS 5.0
on some new machines with larger hard drives where it would be nice.
  Can anyone point me to a source for 3.2 starlan client software?
Or sell it?  NCR and ATT don't have it, though they have been very
nice on the phone trying to help.  AVNet also tried, but to no avail.
  I would also be interested in the TAP program (TCP/IP
Access Program) for the same network, if anyone has it.
  Thanks. Jack
-- 
John P. Nelson, M.D., U. of Pittsurgh, Dept of Psychiatry
(412) 624-4802, 3811 O'Hara St, Pittsburgh PA 15213
jack@nelslab.wpic.pitt.edu jack@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu jpn@med.pitt.edu 
Xref: sparky comp.sys.att:2032 u3b.tech:17
From: friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Stephen Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,u3b.tech
Subject: "upgrading" a 3B15 to a 3B2
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:34:31 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.att
Organization: Steve's Personal machine / Tustin, CA

Howdy folks,

     A customer who is decommissioning a 3B15 and I were talking
about what to do with the machine, and we had a silly thought:
why not mount his 3B2/500 inside the cabinet and try to make use
of the 1600bpi tape drive and 340MB SMD drives?  It actually
began to make some sense (well, at least the tape drive part
because he needs one), and we wondering how possible this is.

     My two specific questions are:

[*]	Does the 3B15 tape drive use a Pertec interface?

[*]	The drives are big Control Data (please do not use the
	"S" word) 340MB drives with SMD interfaces, does anybody
	make a SCSI to SMD controller?

     Has anybody done either of these thing?

     T-I-A,
     Stephen

-- 
Stephen J Friedl | Software Consultant | Tustin, CA |     +1 714 544-6561
3b2-kind-of-guy  | I speak for me ONLY |   KA8CMY   | uunet!mtndew!friedl
 
We should re-arm the Russians as long as they promise to take out Washington
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: R1004@vmcms.csuohio.edu
Subject: query: lpr for the 3B2?
Organization: CSU
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:13:56 GMT

    A while back I saw some postings come across that said something
about lpr that someone had written for the 3B2.  Does such a beast
exist?  If so, how does one aquire it?
 
    I am working with the keepers of this site's IBM mainframe
and am trying to resolve some printing problems.  Their system
programmer tells me life would be wonderful if my TCP/IP
implementaion had lpr.  Wollengong 3.2 does not, ergo,
life is not wonderful.
 
    Can anyone tell me if life will soon be wonderful?  :~)
 
   thanks!
   bob
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bob2@cua3.csuohio.edu    |  Lady luck must have been a wonderful girl
ab556@cwns2.ins.cwru.edu |    -She's never been a friend of mine!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: query: lpr for the 3B2?
From: skilby@ucqais.cba.uc.edu (Steven M. Kilby)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 04:06:37 GMT
 <1992Aug12.224423.26842@bradley.bradley.edu> <1992Aug12.232027.27498@bradley.bradley.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Cincinnati, College of Business

In <1992Aug12.232027.27498@bradley.bradley.edu> guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan) writes:

>In article <1992Aug12.224423.26842@bradley.bradley.edu> pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman) writes:
>-} In <1992Aug12.183151.27474@rtsg.mot.com> gulik@rtsg.mot.com (Gregory Gulik) writes:

>-} >Anyway, archie tells me that there are 3B2 binaries for lpr
>-} >on stasi.bradley.edu, in the /pub directory.
>-}
>-} There are also sources for (presumably) the same on bradley.bradley.edu
>-} in /pub/Lprclient.  (presumably because I haven't asked the owner of
>-} stasi for certain, but we did do that port).

>	No, the binaries on stasi are not generated from the source on
>	bradley.edu.  Somebody uploaded them along with some other 3b2 stuff
>	like xarchie and I just haven't looked at them enough to see if they
>	are worthwhile or not.

Not just somebody 8-).... I did the lpr/lpd port and uploaded the binaries
to stasi.  I hope Jerry finds them worthy.  Although there is a README with
the bins, I'll give a short diexcription.  I did not directly tie the code
the lp facilities.  On my machines I have no printers, I use lpr to print
to printers that have queues on other machines.  But, I believe it may be
possible to set the things up so that a remote machine could use the lpd
daemon to print to a printer directly tied to the 3B2.  I've just never
tried it.  Anyway, the README has my email, if want to try it and have
problems, drop me a line!


Steven Kilby 
-- 
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University of Cincinnati................College of Business Administration
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.att:2006 comp.lang.perl:5285
From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Anyone out there have PERL compiled for the 3B2?
Keywords: perl latest version
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:01:16 GMT
Organization: NetLabs, Inc.

In article <1992Aug11.222043.4152@kopachuk.uucp> dcb@kopachuk.uucp (David Breneman) writes:
: Mr. Wall, what do you have against the 3B2? :-)

I have nothing personal against the 3B2.  But how would you feel about
spending all day carefully putting the ball in the strike zone for a
kid that never gets any better at hitting it?

Larry