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From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: gcc on pc rt
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 02:27:53 GMT

In article <1992Dec27.010817.9597@netcom.com> bigbob@netcom.com (Robert Fickling) writes:
>I have been reading messages like yours for years now.

You mean back before this year when GCC for the RT under AOS was finally
released.

>I think you can forget
>gcc for the RT running AIX. The people with the talent to do the port just
>don't seem to be interested in the project. Oh well...

Free software comes when people who want something want it bad enough to
go do it themselves.  There is certainly no impetus for most RT users in
the academic community to do it; they almost all use AOS/4.3BSD (to the
extent that the RT is still used at all.)  I'm sure there are qualified
people who use AIX 2.x for the RT out there.  Maybe they just don't read
this newsgroup, or they don't care.


-- 
Steve Dyer
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: zitsky+@cs.cmu.edu (Mark Ryan Miller)
Subject: Re: man for AIX?
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:17:32 GMT

Well, I've just ported a version of man onto AIX.  It was fairly
simple.  I had to play around with some includes.  The source
was from a pd unix archive.  If you like I can find out exactly
where I got it.  As for the pages themselves, if you can't get the 
nroff format, the program seems able to handle simple text if it's
already formatted.  And maybe there are some pd man pages :>

As for the question of support, I figure this newsgroup helps a lot.
Maybe if we worked on a faq, or had some kind of newsletter?
It's an interesting question about software.  What happens when
you have a system that is no longer supported.  I think some people
are more loose with source code, etc, since the company CAN'T
sell them the programs they need, so they're not exactly losing
any money.

But, there are a lot of PD programs out there that will work.
I've got man, gnu tar, working in the last few days.  I'm trying
to get xlisp and logo working.

Would anyone care to share their experience in porting software?
I've got AIX 2.2.1 with X Windows, and the standard C compiler,
but want to add lisp, and maybe something like LaTeX if I can
find it.  Is there anyone here who has ported most of the 
software on their system?

--Mark
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: SCSI-DISKS
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 00:37:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec27.195328.125@vms.huji.ac.il> allon@nesher.fh.huji.ac.il (Allon herman) writes:
>I am trying to install a non IBM scsi disk on my RT (running AOS 4.3).
>I am also aware that there has been recently a discussion regarding this topic
>in this newsgroup. I will be most thankful to the person who can tell me if
>and where can I find old articles that were posted on this newsgroup.

The IBM RT SCSI controller only supports differential SCSI disks (a different
electrical spec than most workstation-class disks); I also wonder how
flexible the driver is in handling any drive other than the Athens 400mb
drive (a humongous, noisy and power-hungry 8" or 12" Winchester which
appears like two 200mb devices to the software.)

Christer Bernerus at Sweden's Chalmers University developed a device driver
for the Adaptec 1540a/1542a which supports disks and tapes, though I've only
had experience with disks (a friend seemed to run into some problems with
using both a disk and a 150mb tape, but that may be pilot error--I don't know.)
I've had two SCSI disks running on it flawlessly for over 3 years now.
I'm not sure if the 1542a is still sold--it's a fast AT-bus SCSI DMA
controller card.

I don't know if Christer is still around: his email address used to be
bernerus@utc.chalmers.se
-- 
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From: mjr@balrog.aecom.yu.edu (Mauricio Rosales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: CSD's for AIX 2.2.1
Date: 21 Dec 92 16:12:10 GMT
Organization: Albert Einstein College of Medicine -- Dynamic Brain Imaging Lab

Does anybody know what the  latest (or last) CSD's for the RT's(AIX) are.
I have:
	VRM	1714
	NFS	1204
	TCP	1742
	BOS	1779

IBM isn't very helpfull (or at least customer support) the last time I called
the individual aswering the phone couldn't figure out what AIX 2.2.1 was
and wanted a product  number (??????). 
								Mauricio
							mjr@manunix.cc.mancol.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: keith@dickens.com (Keith Devlin)
Subject: RT Man pages.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:53:33 GMT
Organization: Dickens Data Systems, Inc.

There are indeed *real* RT AIX 2.2.1 man pages from IBM which include
all of the AIX specific commands as well.  They were originally either
IBM Internal Use Only or were available as an RPQ.  I can't remember
which.  I'm not sure if they are still available, but they run quite
well on my system.

--Keith.
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From: peterg@acci.com.au (Peter Gill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: KSH for AIX 2.2.1 - RT
Keywords: AIX KSH RT
Date: 29 Dec 92 22:13:44 GMT
Reply-To: peterg@acci.com.au
Organization: Australian Computing and Communications Institute

Hi out there. We have been installing 2.2.1 on a number of RT's that 
have been donated to us. I was wondering if anybody knows of a KSH for 
this version of AIX - PD or the real thing?

If anyone has any info, please mail me 

Thanks in advance ... 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: bigbob@netcom.com (Robert Fickling)
Subject: Re: man for AIX?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:03:32 GMT

In article <1ho775INNpjp@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> mrush@ecst.csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush) writes:
>
>	Does anyone have a "man" command running under AIX 2.2.1?
>
>	I made a half-hearted attempt to get the BSD man command running,
>but I think it's objecting to AIX's System V-ish directories.  Before
>I get too carried away on this I thought I'd ask if anyone has already
>ported man.


 
 
I have man as well as man pages on my RT running AIX 2.1.1.
BRL had a man script, based on Spencer's 'awf' program. Got the man
pages (giant file) off a local BBS.
Believe it or not it works great!
BTW I don't think AIX ever had man.
 
In short BRL (Ballistic Research Labs) has a good man script that gave
my old RT man :-)
 

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From: mrush@ecst.csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: man for AIX?
Summary: anybody got one?
Date: 29 Dec 92 00:47:33 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu


	Does anyone have a "man" command running under AIX 2.2.1?

	I made a half-hearted attempt to get the BSD man command running,
but I think it's objecting to AIX's System V-ish directories.  Before
I get too carried away on this I thought I'd ask if anyone has already
ported man.
	Or was "man" actually part of AIX, and has, perhaps, been removed
from my system (though I didn't see it on any of the install disk)?


	-- Matt "C P." Rush

	  INTERNET: mrush@ecst.csuchico.edu
	DISCLAIMER: Any opinions expressed herein are mine, and mine alone.
	            However, you are encouraged adopt them as your own :-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: epwong@nyx.cs.du.edu (Elliott Wong)
Subject: Re: gcc on pc rt
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 16:06:26 GMT

	Sorry to be so mercenary about it, but if someone does get GCC
to go on the RT, and I don't really care who it is <grin>, would you
kindly make it available to the rest of us?

	Thanks.

Elliott - nonprogrammer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: bigbob@netcom.com (Robert Fickling)
Subject: Re: gcc on pc rt
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 01:08:17 GMT

In article <1992Dec26.160626.26637@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> epwong@nyx.cs.du.edu (Elliott Wong) writes:
>	Sorry to be so mercenary about it, but if someone does get GCC
>to go on the RT, and I don't really care who it is <grin>, would you
>kindly make it available to the rest of us?
>
>	Thanks.
>
>Elliott - nonprogrammer

 
I have been reading messages like yours for years now. I think you can forget
gcc for the RT running AIX. The people with the talent to do the port just
don't seem to be interested in the project. Oh well...

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From: mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: man for AIX?
Date: 29 Dec 92 16:35:27 GMT
Organization: Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA

In article, mrush@ecst.csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush) writes:
>Does anyone have a "man" command running under AIX 2.2.1?

There were manual pages available from IBM, but the catch is that you
had to explicitly ask for them (our "official" man installation disks had
a hand-scrawled label :-)

-- 
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Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
Subject: another RT card in PC question
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:57:57 GMT


I'm planning to buy a 486 machine soon, and I'd like to be able to use the
IBM RT apa16 graphics adapter and monitor in it as a second monitor.  The
apa16 card is memory mapped at addresses D80000 to D9FFFF on the ISA bus;
this address range is normally used by RAM.  Is there any way to get this
address range to pass through to the ISA bus instead of referencing system
memory?  What if I put the card on an EISA bus?  I'm guessing it will
respond to any address with the low 24 bits in the range D80000 to D9FFFF.
Is there a way to map some part of memory above 16 MB to pass through onto
the EISA bus?

I haven't said specifically what hardware because I haven't decided yet.  If
this makes a difference (some motherboards can do what I want, some can't)
I'd like to know.

(For PC users wondering how this card worked in the RT: the RT maps the
entire I/O bus into a 16 MB memory segment which does not overlap RAM.  For
DMA, I/O bus addresses get translated to RAM addresses.)


--
    John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
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From: jcw@kd4dts.dixie.com (John C. Wren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Parallel To SCSI Interface For PC
Date: 2 Jan 93 00:31:09 GMT
Organization: kd4dts

Does anyone out here in netland know of a device that would let me connect
my laptop (with no expansion slots, but with a parallel port) to the SCSI
chain on my '486 so that I can treat the 120mb drive on the laptop as a
disk drive on the '486?

What I want to accomplish is being able to backup the laptop drive to the
tape system on my '486.  It would also be useful for installing software
from the CD ROM drive on the '486 onto the laptop.  

Any information would be appreciated.
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From: Mike.Chang@launchpad.unc.edu (Mike Chang)
Subject: Re: Request  information for Maxitor 7080AT, 7213AT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:03:07 GMT

>I recently bought two used maxitor drives without documents. I was
>wondering if anyone can find the parameters for Maxitor 7080AT and
>7212AT (cylinder,head,sector number,etc). I also would like know
 ------
>what the jumper settings are for master,slave and single drive
>configurations. Thanks much.
>
>Happy holiday.


Oops, I meant 7213AT drive.

--Mike
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From: galeak@penelope.pad.otc.com.au (Jason Galea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: SVGA programming info needed
Date: 4 Jan 93 01:23:19 GMT
Organization: AOTC Limited


	I am looking for any and all information I can find with respect to
	VGA/SVGA/Extended VGA programming.

	More particularly, information about the registers and their contents,
	BIOS functions, and memory locations.  I have looked in the manual that
	came with my card, but it is next to useless.  

	ANY SVGA information will be greatly appreciated, and particularly any
	info with respect to the Tseng ET4000 and also an ET4000 hooked up to
	a HiColor RAMDAC (Sierra or otherwise).

	I am looking in particular for articles that I can get via anonymous
	FTP, but ANY relevant books that cover SVGA programming in general will
	be greatly appreciated.

	Thanks in advance.


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	Jason Galea
	galeak@nmspad1.pad.otc.com.au


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: hns@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Henning Spruth)
Subject: How to create WordPerfect .WPG files?
Organization: Technical University of Munich, Germany
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:33:20 GMT

I want to include vector graphic output in a word perfect 
document. This is possible using e.g. HPGL files, but the output
is not satisfactory (line widths, etc.). So I would like to create
.WPG files directly.

The WordPerfect developers toolkit costs DM 150,- (about $100) here
in Germany, and I really don't want to spend that money just to 
get to know the file format.

I'd be very grateful for any information on the .WPG format.

Thanks,

Henning

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
Subject: Re: What 486motherboards work with Buslogic 542B SCSI
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:41:31 GMT
Organization: MCSNet, Chicago, IL

In article <1993Jan1.115712.1440@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Michael Squires" <mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
>In article <926@gdx.UUCP> jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder) writes:
>>
>>
>>When I use it under SCO Xenix (2.3.2GT + UFN + xnx339), everything
>>works fine until I load X (Roell's -- ported by Per Linquist).  Then
>>it crashes within minutes.
>>
>>This is also the case with non-GT Xenix on the same board (which is
>>non-scsi, and in theory, shouldn't even try to access the board).
>
>This suggests that you have memory problems, caused either by marginal
>SIMMs or a motherboard with ringing/noise on the memory bus.  In either
>case only substitution will find the problem if this is true.

One other possibility -- bad (or too slow) cache RAM.  This will blow you
sky high on a Unix or Xenix system, but frequently works just fine under
MSDOS.

I've seen several cheap clone boards come with cache RAM that's 5ns too slow
for the board's specs.  The symptom was unpredictable crashes, usually
within minutes of booting.

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From: jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: What 486motherboards work with Buslogic 542B SCSI
Date: 30 Dec 92 04:01:42 GMT
Organization: GDX-BBS,Central Pa Unix BBS/anon uucp (717)737-3249 PEP+/2400/1200 24hrs


I'm having trouble making a BusLogic (formorly BusTek) B542BT
bus-mastering SCSI host adapter work with my 486DX-33 (Pioneer
486WB/33 with OPTI write-back cache).

I suspect the DMA.

Some of the diags that run under DOS crash.

When I use it under SCO Xenix (2.3.2GT + UFN + xnx339), everything
works fine until I load X (Roell's -- ported by Per Linquist).  Then
it crashes within minutes.

This is also the case with non-GT Xenix on the same board (which is
non-scsi, and in theory, shouldn't even try to access the board).

I'd really like to make this work with my current motherboard, but may
entertain buying another one that I __KNOW__ will work.

_______________________________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: Mike.Chang@launchpad.unc.edu (Mike Chang)
Subject: Request  information for Maxitor 7080AT, 7213AT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:58:58 GMT


Hi,

I recently bought two used maxitor drives without documents. I was
wondering if anyone can find the parameters for Maxitor 7080AT and
7212AT (cylinder,head,sector number,etc). I also would like know
what the jumper settings are for master,slave and single drive
configurations. Thanks much.

Happy holiday.

Mike
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
Subject: Re: What 486motherboards work with Buslogic 542B SCSI
Organization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 20:59:52 GMT

In article <1993Jan1.115712.1440@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Michael Squires" <mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
>In article <926@gdx.UUCP> jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder) writes:
>>
>>
>>When I use it under SCO Xenix (2.3.2GT + UFN + xnx339), everything
>>works fine until I load X (Roell's -- ported by Per Linquist).  Then
>>it crashes within minutes.
>>
>>This is also the case with non-GT Xenix on the same board (which is
>>non-scsi, and in theory, shouldn't even try to access the board).
>
>This suggests that you have memory problems, caused either by marginal
>SIMMs or a motherboard with ringing/noise on the memory bus.  In either
>case only substitution will find the problem if this is true.
>
>I've never found a diagnostic package that would test things as well
>as just booting and installing SCO UNIX.

Not so long ago I went thru several motherboards in search of
one that operated properly with more than 16MB main memory.  I
never found an ISA board that would pass a through memory test
program, let alone Unix under load.

I ended up with an EISA motherboard.  The EISA motherboard has
been running ODT with 32 MB for some time.
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:01:36 EST
From: Matthew E. Bernold <MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: BBS tel. no. of GUS?
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
 <dan.725023937@modcomp>

In article <dan.725023937@modcomp>, dan@modcomp.uucp (Dan Grostick) says:
>
>In <1992Dec16.035830.3766@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> y70q@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
>(LAM) writes:
>
>>Can anyone tell me the BBS tel. nunber of GUS?
>
>Gravis BBS 604-431-5927

Or, to save on long distance charges, if you have FTP access, any new drivers
or programs on the Gravis BBS will be copied to the following anonymous FTP
sites:

-----
FTP Sites:                archive.epas.utoronto.ca         pub/pc/ultrasound
                          wuarchive.wustl.edu       systems/msdos/ultrasound
-----

Good luck, and happy GUSing....

       Matthew E. Bernold             MEB117@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
         <<APOCALYPSE>>                  meb@haydn.psu.edu
From: grtorlba@sumax.seattleu.edu (George Torralba)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: FTP'ing and Stuff
Date: 1 Jan 93 07:45:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: sumax.1i2l3lINNls0
Organization: Seattle University
NNTP-Posting-Host: sumax.seattleu.edu

In article <1993Jan1.222815.1340@sfu.ca> mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy) writes:
>> friend who can access a UNIX machine from home (via modem).  Since
>> I'm trying to get onto "archive.epas.utoronto.ca", we typed
>> "ftp archive.epas.utoronto.ca" from the UNIX prompt, but we get an
>> "Unknown Host" message, and then we get the "FTP>" prompt (or
>> something like that) but we aren't connected to anything.
> 
>try ftp 128.100.160.36 instead.
>

I also get the same message every once in a while.  I don't have any such
problems with other sites so I guess this is a way for the epas site to
tell us that it's loaded/busy.  I just normally try connecting after a
liitle while and would be able to get on.

George


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