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From: gsm@gsmmac.ctd.ORNL.GOV (Gregory S. McNeilly)
Subject: A/UX and AFS
Reply-To: gsm@ornl.gov
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:55:45 GMT

There seems to be increasing interest at our installation in AFS(Andrew File System) as a adjunct, 
or successor to NFS.  Can anyone comment on the possible availability of AFS under A/UX?
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From: jds@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Installing GCC problem
Date: 19 Dec 92 17:30:53 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

I have managed to uncompress and untar gcc 2.3.1 fine but there doesn't seem to
be the INSTALL.aux file mentioned on the net, there is an INSTALL file but it
has no mention of A/UX, could someone please send me the correct file or
Installation info, thanks heaps.

Xref: sparky comp.unix.aux:4389 comp.sys.mac:558 comp.sys.mac.misc:20934 comp.sys.mac.hardware:24633 comp.sys.mac.system:15393
From: mike@ra.cs.umb.edu (Michael J. Thibodeau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: A/UX compaitable systems? (was Re: AUX with MAC IIvx why not?)
Keywords: MAC IIvx
Date: 20 Dec 92 07:48:36 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston, Dept of Math and CS


*old Subject: Question: A/UX version for IIvx?

  Can any body help me? I purchased a MacIIvx which will be arriving
  sometime between last week and NewYear's and I just heard some rather
  disturbing news.. A/UX 3.0 is not Compaitable with the IIvx!!

  Any information that you have would be extremely helpful in resolving this
  dilemma. And the quicker the better, I don't know if the folks at PCR in
  Hanover will let me change the order on such a late date.

*NEW  Questions:

o  What is it about the IIvx that makes it incompaitable with A/UX? Can it be
  fixed thru software, perhapse a wrapper that makes A/UX think it is on some
  other machine?


o  Are there any plans for a newer version which will run on this cpu or am I
  high and dry? 


o  I understand 3.0 runs on the Quadra 950, how much money will I have to shell
  out to upgrade the IIvx to a machine that will run AU/X?


o  Is it worth it?


o  Are there any other UN*X packages that will run as well as, if not better
  than, A/UX on my IIvx? Would you recomend it/them?


o  Should I change my order and purchase a different cpu? Which one? Why?


o  What about a Duo?210 or 230?


o  Looks like I'll be switching to a IIci, will A/UXv3.0 run on a ci upgraded to
  Quadra700?


o  When I made the purchase one big selling point was that the built-in CD-ROM
  would be perfect for A/UX's CD. Now that I hear the two wil not work together
  what am I to do? It states in the Apple catalog that:

  "	To run A/UX, you'll need a Macintosh SE/30, any
  Macintosh II, or a Macintosh Quadra personal computer."
     
     p32, The Apple Catalog, premiere Edition 1992

Thank you
-mike

The deadline for changing the order is Monday, December 21. The sooner I can
make a well informed decision the better. Also thankyou to all those who
responded before when I asked about which system to purchase. At the time the
IIvx seemed to be the correct choice, but now...  
Again, Thank you.
-mike

ps 
    If you know of someone who might be able to further help me to deal with
    this problem could you let me know?

    thank you 
                
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: marcelo@deadzone.princeton.edu (Marcelo Gallardo)
Subject: Re: Resetting system time
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:05:34 GMT
Organization: DeadZone * A/UX 3.0 SVR2 * 609-275-1833

In <BzFo74.7pJ@unix.amherst.edu> cgarnett@unix.amherst.edu (Craig Garnett) writes:

>I know this is in the manual, but I'm 500 miles away from my manual
>set right now. Could some kind soul tell me the magic command to
>set system time from a command line? I feel so dumb, but it's just
>not something you have to do very often. :)

	date mmddhhmm

	Marcelo -

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: kingtut@world.std.com (Kingtut)
Subject: pine on jagubox
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 06:03:25 GMT

I d/l the file pine3.05.tar.Z from jagubox and tried to decompress it on my system. But it said that the file is not in compressed format. Is this a problem with the file or with my system??

--Kingtut@world.std.com
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Thursday, 17 Dec 1992 15:38:50 MST
From: Ben Goren <AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: timed

Does anybody have timed running on A/UX 3.0? I picked up the source
from prep.ai.mit.edu, did an xmkmf, even edited the resulting
Makefile so that it'd use gcc rather than cc, but that doesn't really
matter as it never gets that far....

All I get is:

Make: *** Error: Missing colon separator
Make:            [line 255 in /timed/Makefile]

Suggestions, anybody?

b&
From: ericj@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Eric J Reiter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Novice Unix user help
Date: 13 Dec 92 00:06:42 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Can anyone tell me how I can change my prompt to display what directory I am 
in; i.e. like DOS set prompt=$p$g ?

thanks,
please post or send mail 

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From: mclemore@rebec.eng.gtefsd.com (Ken McLemore)
Subject: shell programming standards/guidelines ?
Reply-To: mclemore@rebec.eng.gtefsd.com (Ken McLemore)
Organization: CONTEL Federal Systems
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:15:47 GMT

starting a project that will require lots of scripts and i'm
looking for document, reference book, etc... that contains what
is considered "good shell programming practices".  also hoping
to find guidelines on "things to avoid".  we'll be using IBM's
RS/6000 with AIX OS and right now leaning towards Bourne shell
since most of staff is familiar with same.
thanks in advance, ken
ps. reviewed FAQ but didn't see what i was looking for...


Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
From: Christopher.Vance@adfa.oz.au (Christopher JS Vance)
Subject: Re: .cshrc vs .login in csh
Originator: cjsv@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au
Organization: Computer Science, University College, UNSW/ADFA, Canberra, Australia
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:33:16 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.144202.14110@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> esaffle@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ed Saffle) writes:
|   Sorry to add so late to this conversation, but isn't the .login file

You should have read the rest of the thread before you wrote..

| only used at login time, and the .cshrc file used everytime a new shell is
| started ( unless -f is specified)?
|   So why not put your environment setup stuff in the .login, such as path and
| terminal stuff, then put aliases and that kind of thing in the .cshrc?

Because you sometimes get a shell *without* logging in.  Such a shell
will source .cshrc but has no ancestor which has sourced .login.  Like
all my xterms, for a start.  No I don't want to start all my xterm
shells as login shells.

I always set an environment variable (not a shell variable, since they
don't propagate) which indicates whether or not my .cshrc has been
sourced yet.  My .cshrc then checks the existence or value of this
variable to decide whether to set things like my path, etc.  You can
also check whether the shell variable, prompt, has been set to decide
whether to do terminal setup.

Currently the variable I use for this purpose is SHELL, and the value
I look for ends with `Rc'.  (It was `rc' but one vendor's /bin/sh
thinks that the environment variable SHELL set to such a value
indicates a restricted shell, breaking the few /bin/sh scripts I
haven't yet converted to rc.)  The [t]csh is still my login shell
because I (infrequently) want to do job control in situations where I
have neither X nor screen available --- it's a not-very-satisfactory-
but-almost-passable window manager....
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
From: dapor@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Carlo Dapor)
Subject: Re: recovering files with .tar-z extensions
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:27:36 GMT

	Hi!

	I think the problem is the following: the files are 'compressed'
	tar files, i.e. they have been tar'ed and compressed;

	You better rename these files to .tar.Z. Now you can 'uncompress'
	them, as usual like this:

	uncompress foo-file.tar.Z

	You get the tar-file, in this very case it'll be foo-file.tar
	I guess I don't have to tell you how to process tar files.

	To speed up all this, and to save some space you may have a look
	at it - or even extract the file with this one:

	zcat foo-file.tar.Z | tar tfv - | more		# list the archive
	zcat foo-file.tar.Z | tar xfv - 		# extract them

	If this doesn't work, you may have got garbage files, sorry.

	Bonne chance, as Frenchmen'd say :-)

bye
-carlo


Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
From: ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones)
Subject: Re: REALLY trapping INT
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 01:17:57 GMT

In <ByvExM.3Hv@techbook.com> jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) writes:

>I've got some newbies that I'd like to put into a menu.  No problem,
>I'll write a shell program and use that as their login shell.  They can
>still use all the UNIX commands, but I can show them what to do on
>different menu pages.

>Hmmm.  ^C kills the program they're running all right, but it also kills
>the menu shell.  Dip into the manual.  No problem.  I'll just trap INT
>like so:

[..stuff deleted...]

>So: is there a 100% guaranteed way of turning off ^C while running a 
>shell program while leaving it intact inside other programs?

I don't know about a 100% guarantee but...
Try using stty to disable ^C at the beginning of your script, enable it just
before each application is run and then disable it when comming back to the
script.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
From: ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern)
Subject: BASH history question
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 17:42:22 EST

I have been trying to set my history file size in BASH, with no success.
I put 'set histfilesize=50' and designated the history file in my profile
put this doesn't seem to do it.  What is the correct syntax?

						TIA,
						L. Stern

Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Subject: Re: Exiting KSH with ^D
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 19:57:24 GMT
Keywords: shell, ksh, kornshell, HP-UX

In <1992Dec17.223304.3274@kopachuk.uucp> dcb@kopachuk.uucp (David Breneman) writes:

:In article <1992Dec9.184249.24657@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jpittas@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (john.pittas) writes:
:>Lots of people have followed up on this saying that you need
:>to set 'viraw' in order to exit ksh with control-d.  However,
:>on both Sun machines and AT&T 3B2's I can exit ksh with ^D
:>without a subsequent <return> and WITHOUT having viraw set.
:>So, the original question is still valid: why is this behavior
:>different with HP's ksh?
:>

:I don't have the answer, but I can tell you that HP isn't the only
:offender.  Our AT&T 7020 (Pyramid MIS-02) does the same thing.  If
:you want to log out you have to enter <CTRL> D  <RETURN>
:If you just enter <CTRL> D  somebody can come along and press
:<DELETE> and bring the terminal back up as you.  This is in the Sys V
:universe.  Useful security feature. :-)  I now find myself using
:<CTRL> D  <RETURN> even on the 3B2s just out of habit.

This problem would occur if your eof is something other than
ctrl-d.  Look at stty -a output to see what your settings are.
Here's part of stty -a from my Xenix 2.3.4 system.

speed extb baud; line = 0; intr = DEL; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = ^@; swtch = ^@
....

Bill
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
From: esh@bnr.ca (Jim Eshelman P910)
Subject: Re: Novice Unix user help
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, BNR-RTP
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:40:05 GMT

In article <101787@netnews.upenn.edu>, ericj@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Eric J Reiter) writes:
|> Can anyone tell me how I can change my prompt to display what directory I am 
|> in; i.e. like DOS set prompt=$p$g ?
|> 
If you are in CSH, you can try:

    alias  cd       'cd \!*; set prompt = "{`pwd`}<\! >"'

but note that most of the gurus out there will likely ignore your question
since this kind of info is in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) files
which were posted just last week.  Get a copy & study before venturing here
as a novice -- and provide more detail on the system you are using.
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From: daveh@ucla-an.UUCP (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: REALLY trapping INT
Date: 13 Dec 92 16:56:21 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@ucla-an.UUCP (Dave Hammond)
Organization: Anesthesia Dept., Sch. of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles

>In <ByvExM.3Hv@techbook.com> jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) writes:
>
>>I've got some newbies that I'd like to put into a menu.  No problem,
>>I'll write a shell program and use that as their login shell.  They can
>>still use all the UNIX commands, but I can show them what to do on
>>different menu pages.
>
>>Hmmm.  ^C kills the program they're running all right, but it also kills
>>the menu shell.

Presuming the menu shell is a looping sh/ksh/bash script, calling

trap : 2

will protect the menu shell from interrupts.  For example:

while :
do
	trap : 2
	echo enter yor choice
	read answer
	case $answer in
	1) foo ;;
	2) bar ;;
	99) break ;;
	esac
done
exit

Hitting (or leaning on :-) the interrupt key at either the menu or
child program level will not affect the menu shell.

Hope this helps.

--
Dave Hammond
daveh@anes.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
From: sasmob@chewy.unx.sas.com (Mark Burhans)
Subject: Re: Shell script poser
Originator: sasmob@chewy.unx.sas.com
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:45:27 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <1992Dec14.150045.11456@maths.nott.ac.uk>, anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker) writes:
|> In article <724029721snx@trmphrst.demon.co.uk>
|> nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk writes:
|> >Here's a little shell-script problem for all you gurus out there ...
|> 	[wants lines lower-cased and Capitalised]
|> >Can this be done using STANDARD UNIX COMMANDS ONLY (i.e. awk, tr, sed etc.)
|> 
|> 	It's easy enough with "sed":
|> 
|> sed "
|> 	y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/
|> 	/^[a-z]/ { h
|> 		   y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/
|> 		   G
|> 		   s/\(.\).*\n./\1/
|> 		 }
|> " < filename

And it's easy enough with "awk":

awk '{
        printf "%c%s\n", toupper(substr($0,1,1)),tolower(substr($0,2))
     }' <filename


Just thought I'd do a different one...


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
From: ralf.weber@fernuni-hagen.de (Ralf Weber)
Subject: Question concerning Xterm control sequences 
Organization: FernUniversitaet Hagen
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:16:31 GMT

Hello world,

is there anybody who can give me information on how i can get
the Xterm control sequences ?

Who has experience in Tektronix 40xx terminal emulation programming
with Xterm ?

Many thanks in advance...

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT)
Subject: Re: Reading a line from a file in Bourne
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:05:36 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Chicago, Illinois  60657

shutton@fokker.union.indiana.edu (Scott K. Hutton) wrote in
<SHUTTON.92Dec11112920@fokker.union.indiana.edu>:

| This is something that has eluded me  for a good while, but now I have
| to find out.  How can  you read lines (yes, entire lines) sequentially
| in from a file and store them in a variable.  For example:
| 
|   for ITEM in `cat $FILENAME`
|     do echo a full line: $ITEM
|   done
| 
| If you're given a file that contains:
| 
|   Line one
|   Line two
| 
| This script would output
| 
|   a full line: Line
|   a full line: one
|   a full line: Line
|   a full line: two

By "this script" do you mean the one you want or the sample you listed?
My guess is that you're talking about the sample you listed, because that's
what it will do, and that you'd like this:

a full line: Line one
a full line: Line two

| Any easy answers?

while read fullline
  do echo a full line: "$fullline"
done < $FILENAME

That will give you some trouble with lines that end in backslashes, but
it will complicate things to take care of those.

David W. Tamkin   Box 59297   Northtown Station, Illinois  60659-0297
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin
From: denbeste@enigma.bgsu.edu (William C DenBesten)
Subject: Re: crontab problem executing this command!
Originator: denbeste@enigma
Reply-To: denbeste@enigma.bgsu.edu
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:07:43 GMT

 From article <EJH.92Dec10164940@khonshu.colorado.edu>, by ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett):
> 
> Hi! I have a command in a crontab file which is supposed to
> periodically copy a mail file (containing my outgoing mail) into a
> datestamped file. Here's what I see when I type crontab -e
> 
> 59 11 * * 6 cp /home/khonshu/sjsk/.outgoing.record /home/khonshu/sjsk/msgs/mailout.`date '+%y%m%d'`
> 
> Which I expected to copy my .outgoing.record to mailout.921205 last
> Saturday morning. But instead I got a copy to mailout. with no date.
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

I run the following daily:

backup% crontab -l
0 3 * * * dodump `date +\%a`  1>>/var/log/`date +\%m-\%d-\%y`backup 2>&1
backup%

The difference that I see is that I quoted the percents.  I am running
SunOS 4.1.3.
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From: bnb@ukc.ac.uk (The Impossible Dreamer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Integers in SH
Date: 12 Dec 92 17:13:08 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.


The following should tell you if a given string is an positive integer on
not, I have written it as a shell function. If your sh hasn't got shell
functions it shouldn't be too hard to convert it...

isint()
{
# Shell function to return true if give number is an integer
	for a in `echo $1|sed 's/./& /g'`
	do
		case $a in
			0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9) ;;
			*) # This isn't a number.. so its not an int
			return 1 ;;
		esac
	done
	return 0;
}

To use it just put it at the top of your shell script and call it in an if
eg.

echo -n "Number of lines:"
read a
if isint $a
then
	echo OK
else
	echo Hows about an integer
fi
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
From: Sm@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au (Scott Merrilees)
Subject: Re: rsh terminates while loop
Organization: BHP, Newcastle, Australia
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:57:18 GMT

davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:


>  It appears that the rsh does /something/ which wipes out the stdin of
>the while loop. What I would like to understand is what's happening (I
>already have an ugly but functional workaround).

>$ cat y.tmp
>qx1 -a
>qx2 -a
>danqx -l
>$ cat x.tmp
>#!/bin/sh
>while read host flags
>do
> result=`rsh $host uname $flags`
> echo "$host: $result"
>done
>$ ./x.tmp < y.tmp
>qx1: qx1
>$

>Note that after reading a single line from the file the while loop ends.
>Any command other than rsh does not cause this, and if you use ksh you
>get an illegal IOCTL fault (under SunOS).

use 'rsh -n' if it works for you, otherwise use 'rsh </dev/null'.

What happens is that the local rsh can't know when the remote process need
input, so it gobbles up stdin and passes it to the remote process, thus
using all your input.  If the remote process doesn't use all or any of the
input, then it is lost, because it isn't passed back and reinserted into
stdin.

Sm
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From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: BASH history question
Date: 14 Dec 1992 15:45:41 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu

In article <1992Dec13.174222.15038@newstand.syr.edu> ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern) writes:
>I have been trying to set my history file size in BASH, with no success.
>I put 'set histfilesize=50' and designated the history file in my profile
>put this doesn't seem to do it.  What is the correct syntax?

HISTFILESIZE=50
-- 
``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.''
	-- Arthur Schlesinger

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
From: sbrenner@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (scott.d.brenner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Question About 'tput': Is There a Way to Store Current Position?
Date: 17 Dec 92 19:47:42 GMT
Organization: AT&T

Is there a way to save the current cursor position so I can put the
cursor back there after doing a "tput cup X Y" ?  As part of a shell
script, I want to echo a line near the bottom of the screen and then
return to the previous cursor position as if I had never left.

If you have any ideas on this, please respond directly to sbrenner@att.com
since I don't get to read this group as often as I'd like.

a T d H v A a N n K c S e

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