HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: schemers@leland.Stanford.EDU (Roland Schemers)
Subject: Re: "Not enough core"...swap space? (Yikes!)
Organization: Distributed Computing Group, Stanford University
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 02:23:56 GMT

In article <1a2vh2INN4u0@golem.wcc.govt.nz> brockie@golem.wcc.govt.nz (Roger Brockie) writes:
>Config file:
>config		vmunix	root on rz1a  swap on rz2a and rz1b    dumps on rz1b  
>
>chpt(8) gives:
>/dev/rrz2c
>Current partition table:
>partition     bottom        top       size    overlap
>    a              0     275535     275536    b,c,g
>    b         165536     275535     110000    a,c,g
>    c              0    1299173    1299174    a,b,d,e,f,g,h
>    d         275536    1299173    1023638    c,e,f,g,h
>
>I mount and use the d partition (btw the drives an RZ56)
>
>and swapon(8) gives:
>Adding /dev/rz2a as swap device
>/dev/rz2a: No such device
>

The first problem is you should NEVER use partition 'a' as swap.
Unless the rules have changed, swapping on partition 'a' will trash
the partition table, since it is also on partition 'a'. I would
suggest moving the 'd' partition to 'a', and swapping only on 'b'.
'b' is usually designated as the swap partition.

Are you sure you have rebuilt and installed the correct kernel?
My system name is SLAPSHOT, and I swap on rz0b and rz1b. If I look
in the file:

/sys/MIPS/SLAPSHOT/swapvmunix.c

I see:

#include "../h/param.h"
#include "../h/conf.h"

dev_t	rootdev = makedev(21, 0);
dev_t	dumpdev = makedev(21, 1);

struct	swdevt swdevt[] = {
	{ makedev(21, 1),	0,	0 },	/* rz0b */
	{ makedev(21, 9),	0,	0 },	/* rz1b */
	{ 0, 0, 0 }
};

setconf(){}

Which shows that the kernel is setup to use both swap devices.
I would make sure the that this file looks correct and make
sure that the correct vmunix is in /. I'm not sure if the format
of the fstab file matters (probably not) but I always use:

/dev/rz1b::sw:0:0:ufs::

For a swap partition.

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From: przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: How do I set my path for dxwm?
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:42:53 GMT
Organization: U. of Maryland/NIST
In-reply-to: welch@nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 28 Sep 92 15:04:56 GMT


In article <1992Sep28.150456.26543@cis.ohio-state.edu> welch@nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arun Welch) writes:

   Where can I set my path so that I don't have to give a full pathname
   to applications in the Session Manager?

I asked DEC support and the answer was "You can't do that", i.e.
you have to specify path in your config files.
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			(301) 975 6249
From: rees@cs.pitt.edu (Ernest T Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: swap partition
Date: 1 Oct 92 00:19:10 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

I'm trying to add a second swap partition on a DECstation.
swapon tells me /dev/rz2d: no such device.
This device definitely exists; it had a file system mounted on it and
I can change the fstab entry back to the original version and see
the filesytem.  Could the existence of the filesystem be the problem?
I've compared the format of my fstab entry against one on another
DECstation and they are identical, so I'm confident that it is not the
problem.

Ted Rees rees+@pitt.edu
Xref: sparky comp.unix.ultrix:7288 comp.sys.dec:5285
From: marak@mizar.concordia.ca ( Mike Marak)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec
Subject: DECstation 5000 equivalent of SPARCstation IPC
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:20:17 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec
Organization: EMC-LAB, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Help,
   A co-worker is looking for the Dec equivalent (performance-wise) of a
SUN SPARCstation IPC. Does anyone out there know/have the DEC ratings for
the various DECstation 5000/nnn workstations. I can't find my workstation
handbook (and it's probably out of date), and I need the answers asap.

  Here are the SUN's performance ratings:

		SPECint 92		13.8
		SPECfp 92		11.1
		SPEC throughput 89	N/A
		MIPS			17.8
		MFLOPS			1.8

  What model DS5000 (100/125/200/240/????) gives similar preformance ratings?
If I can't give him an answer, he's going with SUN.

  Please e-mail (and post a follow-up if you wish) any answers, as my news-
server is a bit flakey right now (articles are about 3 days behind).

	Thanks in advance
	    Mike

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: wieckert@immd5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Wieland Eckert)
Subject: Local netgroup possible ?
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:00:25 GMT

Hello Ultrix Managers,

I would like to have on a isolated (server) machine a local netgroup
list which is _not_ served by YP. I'm just going to map machine names.
MAN entry says to use something like

i5_ds5000       (faui56a,-,),(faui56a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de,-,),\
                (faui56b,-,),(faui56b.informatik.uni-erlangen.de,-,),\
                (faui56c,-,),(faui56c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de,-,),\
                (faui56d,-,),(faui56d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de,-,)

in the file /etc/netgroup  -  right ??

But I cannot mount from one of these machines :-(
Yes, /etc/exports says 
	/usr    -o      i5_ds5000
When entering dirctly the machine name in the exports file, it works ...

1. Is it netgrouping only possible with YP ?
2. Is my entry correct ?
3. What else ?????

Thanks in advance,
W/
-----
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e-mail: wieland.eckert@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: smccoy@dw3g.ess.harris.com (Scott McCoy)
Subject: Re: QUESTION: scan (mh) ignores -file parm
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:06:49 GMT
Organization: Harris Corporation Information Systems Division
Keywords: scan, mh

In article <4465@datum.nyo.dec.com>, frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner) writes:
|> 
|> You must "inc" your mail into a mh-style folder before you can "scan" that
|> mail.  "scan" reads only mh folders, which consist of a directory containing
|> one message per file.  The /usr/spool/mail/mccoy file contains multiple messages
|> in a single file.  "inc" converts the latter format to the former format.  Only
|> "inc" takes a "-file" option.
|> 
|> Hope this clears things up.
|> 
|> 					Frank

Not at all!  :-( Look...

% scan -help
syntax: scan [+folder] [msgs] [switches]
  switches are:
  -[no]clear
  -form formatfile
  -(forma)t string
  -[no]header
  -width columns
  -[no]reverse
  -(file) file
  -(help)

version: MH 6.7.1 #19[UCI] (lastout.zk3.dec.com) of Tue Mar 19 00:01:25 EST 1991
options: [ISI] [MHRC] [WHATNOW] [MHE] [BSD42] [BERK] [NETWORK] [BIND]
         [RPATHS] [DPOP] [RPOP] [FOLDPROT='"0700"'] [MSGPROT='"0600"']
         [TYPESIG='void'] [POPSERVICE='"pop"'] [SPRINTF='int'] [SENDMTS]
         [SMTP] [POP] [X400]

This tells me that scan takes a '-file' switch!

I want to re-iterate that using scan against the /usr/spool/mail/smccoy
file *USUALLY* works.  It's just that *sometimes*, scan ignores the
file parameter and gives me that message about "no messages in
wastebasket" (or draft, for that matter).

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.wizards
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Subject: Re: Inodes in short supply.  Why?
Keywords: inodes,lack,thereof
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:40:18 GMT


In article <1992Oct5.172109.7393@parsifal.umkc.edu>, gcombs@parsifal.umkc.edu (Gerald Combs) writes:
>
>  For the past few weeks, out news partition has been running dangerously low 
>on inodes, even though less than 60% of the disk space is being used.  Does 
>anybody know what might be the problem?  Here's the output of 'df -i /news':

The newfs(8) defaults assume that the average file size is going to
be 2 KB and based on the capacity of the partition, sets the number
of inode accordingly.  News files tend to be small enough that this
default is to large.  You'll want to make a backup of the News
and re-create the file system.  Some experimentation with the -i
option, -c option and possibly lies about the disk geometry may
be necessary to convince newfs(8) that you really need more inodes.
  
>
>Filesystem   Total    kbytes   kbytes   %     inodes   inodes   %            
>node         kbytes   used     free     used  used     free     used Mounted on
>/dev/rz1f     475439  249558  178338    58%    97887     417   100%  /news
>
>- Gerald Combs
--
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson)
Subject: Re: X11 interactive response degraded on Ultrix 4.3
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 04:09:07 GMT

ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson) writes:



Ok: more info. I have tcp_wrapper, and I used inetd from 4.3 with inetd.conf
from 4.2 referencing the tcpd daemon. top showed syslog/inetd gobbling 99%
of the CPU.

I suspect this caused the problem.

So new question... why would inetd have problems with tcpd from the 4.2->4.3
shift?

	-George
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec
From: ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento)
Subject: Re: DECstation 5000 equivalent of SPARCstation IPC
Followup-To: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:22:47






In article <5172@daily-planet.concordia.ca> marak@mizar.concordia.ca ( Mike 
Marak) writes:


>> Help,
>>    A co-worker is looking for the Dec equivalent (performance-wise) of a
>> SUN SPARCstation IPC. Does anyone out there know/have the DEC ratings for
>> the various DECstation 5000/nnn workstations. I can't find my workstation
>> handbook (and it's probably out of date), and I need the answers asap.

>>   Here are the SUN's performance ratings:

>>	   SPECint 92		13.8
>>	   SPECfp 92		11.1
>>	   SPEC throughput 89	N/A
>>	   MIPS			17.8
>>	   MFLOPS			1.8

>>  What model DS5000 (100/125/200/240/????) gives similar preformance ratings?
>> If I can't give him an answer, he's going with SUN.

>>   Please e-mail (and post a follow-up if you wish) any answers, as my news-
>> server is a bit flakey right now (articles are about 3 days behind).

>>   Thanks in advance
>>       Mike

Mike,

  He probably wants the PDS5000/20 based on your inquiry:


	25 Sept 1992		SPEC Cint92 Cfp92 Results Summary

				SPEC		SPEC		Publication
				int92		fp92		date

DEC station Model 20		13.7		14.8		Jun-92
DEC station Model 25		15.8		17.5		Jun-92
DEC station 5000 Model 33	20.9		23.4		Sep-92
DEC station 5000 Model 125	16.0		17.5		Sep-92
DEC station 5000 Model 133	20.1		23.5		Jun-92
DEC station 5000 Model 240	27.3		29.9		Jun-92
DEC DECsystem 5900		27.3		29.9		Jun-92


According to the 

"Personal DECstation Series Workstations and Server Technical Overview" 

which I believe can be found on gatekeeper in postscript format.

			Model 20	Model 25
	SPECmark	  16.3		  19.1
	SPECint		  13.5		  15.7

	Single Presc.     5.3MFLOPS	  6.5MFLOPS
	Double Presc.	  2.4MFLOPS	  2.8MFLOPS

The system comes with a base graphics option that is XVGA (1024 x 764) and
has two open TURBOchannel expansion slots. From the base system I/O you get
SCSI, Ethernet, ISDN, Audio, ACCESS.bus, Synch/Asynch Comm and graphics.

I hope that helps answer your question.

				Thanx,
				  AJ


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From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Is "wait" working?
Keywords: wait
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:13:26 GMT
Reply-To: frank@nyo.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1992Sep30.144003.4164@nlm.nih.gov>, neve@nlm.nih.gov (Leif Neve) writes:

|>BTW - I noticed that the "wait" in /bin/sh5 is better behaved in this regard.
|>Can one of you UNIX  gurus tell me how I  can use /bin/sh5's "wait" but still put
|>#!/bin/sh at the top of my script file?

The only way I can think of is to:

	mv /bin/sh /bin/sh.old
	cp /usr/bin/sh5 /bin/sh

The biggest downside I can think of is that sh5's builtin echo uses a \c to
suppress carriage returns while /bin/sh uses -n.  This messes up some shell
scripts (/etc/rc and /etc/rc.local are prime examples).  While I *think*
everything will still function OK, I can't make any promises.

						Frank

P.S.  IMHO, while the "wait" command in /bin/sh does *not* take an argument,
supplying one shouldn't cause the shell to freeze.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Subject: Ultrix 4.3 vs Infoserver client...
Organization: CS
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 23:33:57 GMT



The Infoserver client for Ultrix RISC doesn't show up as being
qualified or unqualified for use with Ultrix 4.3.  Can I use the
1.0 Infoserver client stuff with 4.3?  (Table 5-1, page 5-5 in the release
notes).

My rep doesn't know beans.  Nor does he know who to call.  (Section 5.2,
page 5-5 in the release notes).

Any help appreciated.  Thanks.
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu
From: tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tod McQuillin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: "Not enough core"...swap space?
Date: 26 Sep 92 08:24:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.sel8vPC00VotA126Nu
 <innodata.717242569@kuba.informatik.uni-freiburg.de> <1992Sep24.104940.2138@rdg.dec.com>
	<1a1890INNcm@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

brockie@golem.wcc.govt.nz (Roger Brockie) writes:
> In article <1992Sep24.104940.2138@rdg.dec.com> tusia@decum.muh.dec.com (Dick Tusia) writes:
> >
> >Also as a rough rule of thumb we usally recommmend that  your swap space
> >equal 3X your actual physical memory. When adding a second swap
> >partition make you sure you add an entry in the /etc/fstab file.
> 
> I've done this, but swapon gives a no such device error.  Yes, there is a
> device.
> 
> Whats wrong ?

Use chpt(8) to examine the drive partitioning and make sure the
partition table points your chosen partition to a region of the disk
that a) actually exists, and b) doesn't overlap any other partition.

Make sure you're using the block device and not the raw device in
/etc/fstab.  Mine has a line like this:

/dev/ra2b::sw:::::

Check the startup messages in the uerf log to make sure the system is
actually recognising the disk on bootup.  If it's not, check your
kernel configuration file to make sure you have a lines for the
correct drive and controller.  If it doesn't, add them and rebuild the
kernel.

Furthermore, make sure all the swap devices are specified in the
kernel config file -- mine has a line like this:

config          vmunix  root on ra0a  swap on ra0b and ra2b   dumps on ra0b

Good luck!
From: mogul@pa.dec.com (Jeffrey Mogul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.3 for DECstation (RISC) - when?
Date: 7 Oct 92 01:03:34 GMT
Organization: DEC Western Research

In article <dittrich.718393705@milton> dittrich@milton.u.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich) writes:
>Perhaps DECs new management will get the message that LAT and DECnet
>aren't the only protocols that their packet filters should support
>because DEC isn't the only place we get our software from.  We rely
>VERY heavily on CAP, Utah DUMP, and POP3 for supporting Macs, and have
>to keep things running.  An OS upgrade is a bad thing to have to fear.
>It forces you to live with other bugs, and makes life hell when you
>switch over;  Really makes you regret having bought someone's hardware
>sometimes.

Just to amplify what Matt said: I made a point of obtaining a field-test
version of the Ultrix 4.3 kernel and checking that the packet filter
did indeed work.  I also got the relevant kernel sources and verified
that they are (in essence) identical to the ones we used to generate
the patches for Ultrix 4.2.

The bug that Matt mentioned, which primarily affects DECNet-OSI (if
I understand it right), was actually introduced in the patches to
Ultrix 4.2.  Thus, if you are running DECNet-OSI on Ultrix 4.2 then
you probably don't want to install the old (early 1992) CAP patches!

This bug was my fault (i.e., it's in code that I wrote).  Since I
don't use DECNet-OSI, I was unaware of it; it's a shame that nobody
field-testing Ultrix 4.3 was running DECNet-OSI.

I'm not part of the Ultrix or OSF (or any) product group, so I can't
presume to speak for them.  I do believe that people are taking the
packet filter more seriously, but I'm gaining an appreciation of just
how hard it is to get all the different network mechanisms to work
together.  Which does not excuse any of the bugs that have leaked
through, of course.

-Jeff
From: kchiles@teton.llnl.gov (Keith Chiles)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Printcap for Talaris 1500
Date: 3 Oct 92 00:03:21 GMT
Reply-To: kchiles@teton.llnl.gov (Keith Chiles)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

Dear Ultrix Netland,

Does anybody have a printcap entry for a 
Talaris 1500 printer.  I will be putting it on 
a decstation for some programmers to output
their source code only..  No graphics

Thanks in advance--Keith
kchiles@arac.llnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: rbeebe@surgery.med.yale.edu (Rick Beebe)
Subject: Rarpd problem
Organization: Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:02:07 GMT

Rarpd on my DECstation aborts every time it gets a rarp request from a 
machine that isn't in /etc/ethers. I remember seeing a thread about this 
several months ago (when I wasn't interested, of course), but not the 
outcome. Is there a fixed version available somewhere?
From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: List of X11-related bugs in Ultrix 4.2a?
Date: 6 Oct 92 23:09:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.2AD21CBC.24177
Organization: University of California, Irvine

In article <4476@datum.nyo.dec.com> frank@nyo.dec.com writes:
>
>In article <1992Oct6.185550.9123@Warren.MENTORG.COM>, tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
>|>Also, what version of X11 (R3 or R4) is in MIPS Ultrix 4.2 and 4.2A?
>
>Both are R4.

R4 for PX and PXG cards didn't show up until 4.2A, if I remember correctly.


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson)
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.3 Installation and Performance Reports Wanted
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 06:39:13 GMT


.. Its left zillions of .new..<somefilename> and .proto..<somefilename> 
instances all over my disks.

ADVANCED installation options, from scratch. tried UPGRADE and it barfed
complaining not enough diskspace before. I guess the cruft comes from
setld UPGRADE dying and the disk layout being identical when it was
newfs'd and un-dump/tarred.

or what?

-George
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From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.2 dd brain damage
Date: 6 Oct 92 15:55:20 GMT
Reply-To: frank@nyo.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <61269@aurs01.UUCP>, davis@aurs01.UUCP (Alan Davis) writes:

|>This isn't the only case where DEC blew the man page updates. Sun fixed
|>theirs, it correctly calls a word 4 bytes.

IFF the machine has a 32-bit CPU.  On a 16 bit machine a "word" is 2 8-bit
bytes, while on a 64-bit machine, a "word" is *8* 8-bit bytes.  Assuming
that a "word" is some constant size accross all machines is incorrect.

However, since the manual page for dd explictly states that "w" stands for
2 bytes, IMHO, Roy Smith has a legitimate complaint.

					Frank
From: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.2 dd brain damage
Date: 6 Oct 92 12:54:18 GMT
Organization: New York University, School of Medicine

davis@aurw17.aur.alcatel.com.UUCP (Alan Davis) writes:
>Ultrix 4.2 and SunOs 4.1.1 both agree on this behaviour.  The DEC man
>page seems to indicate the behaviour you *expect*.  However, since a
>'word' on these machines is 32 bits, what we seem to get is 512*(4
>bytes/word)=2048 bytes. 
>
>This isn't the only case where DEC blew the man page updates. Sun fixed
>theirs, it correctly calls a word 4 bytes.

	"Seems to indicate"?  You're being too kind.  I quote from the
man page, "[...]  or w for words (2 bytes)".  Feh!  Poor or ambigious
documentation may be no better than no documentation at all, but
explicitly erroneous documentation is much worse than either.  I would
call this a documentation bug, but according to the man pages, Ultrix
doesn't have any bugs.  Perhaps it's a man page restriction.

	And, yes, of course I realize that it's taking the word size
to be 4 bytes.  The point is, had the man page simply said "word
size", I would have thought, "hey, I'm not sure what the word size is
on this machine, I'd better play it safe and write 512x2 which is what
I really want".  It's been a long time since I've known or cared about
the word size on the particular hardware I happen to be using.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: anthony@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Anthony Baxter)
Subject: Re: "Not enough core"...swap space?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 15:37:44 GMT

In <1a1890INNcm@golem.wcc.govt.nz> brockie@golem.wcc.govt.nz (Roger Brockie) writes:

>In article <1992Sep24.104940.2138@rdg.dec.com> tusia@decum.muh.dec.com (Dick Tusia) writes:
>>
>>Also as a rough rule of thumb we usally recommmend that  your swap space
>>equal 3X your actual physical memory. When adding a second swap
>>partition make you sure you add an entry in the /etc/fstab file.

>I've done this, but swapon gives a no such device error.  Yes, there is a device.
>Whats wrong ?
Did you add the swap area to the kernel config file?
Eg, from this machine, with 4 swap areas:
config		vmunix	root on rz0a  swap on rz0b and rz1d and rz2d and rz3d

If you dont do the above, it wont add the second swap.


Anthony
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