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From: smith@ur-guh.COM (Russ Smith)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Modems not reenabling after hanging up.
Date: 13 Sep 92 11:30:16 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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[sorry, don't remember the original Subject: line]

We have the same problem here -- occassionally after our modem has
been used (incoming/outgoing/whatever) it refuses to behave
appropriately for incoming calls until powercycled.

I thought it was the el-cheapo modem we're using until I saw the other
folks on the net complaining...

In the file "dialHA24.c", the "Hayes" compatible 2400 baud modem
dialer thingee, the UNIX "sleep" function is being called multiple times,
each time with the value 1. Though "man sleep" doesn't mention it, I
seem to vaguely remember from the deep distant past that sleep is
guaranteed to sleep as MUCH as the -requested- time, not as LITTLE as
the requested time; thus "sleep(1)" will sleep as long as 1 second or
as little as not at all [albeit, this was under either a BSD UNIX or
even Version 7, not SysV]

Thus, there may be a timing problem with the modem dialer thingee
command-issuing due to the above [I haven't looked into it any
further; it's 7-something-AM on Sunday and I'm going back to bed!]

[system is SCO 3.2.2, Packard-Bell 2400bps modem]

Russ <Smith@ur-guh.com>
Ur-Guh Complex Inc.
From: geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: re: CPU cache and memory performance
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:05:26 GMT
Organization: Izot's Swamp


   As it turns out, Bela's theory is essentially correct.

   I was recently leafing through the manual to a PC Chips motherboard, and 
they stated that the amount of RAM that you could cache was directly 
proportional to the amount of cache RAM installed: 8 MB for 32K, 16 MB for 
64K, 32 MB for 128K, and 64 MB for 256K.

   Interestingly, they use 8K of tag RAM for cache sizes up to 128K, and 32K 
for a 256K cache.

Geoffrey Welsh, 7 Strath Humber Court, Islington, Ontario, M9A 4C8 Canada
geoff@zswamp.uucp, [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff (416)258-8467
         Coincidentally, most people who fight for "fairness" would be
         significantly better off under the system they call "fair"...
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From: news@xenitec.on.ca (xenitec.on.ca News Administrator)
Subject: Re: C-News for SCO.
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Ken Germann writes:
> 
> I am going to drop the C-news for SCO out to UUNET and submit a request
> to have it added to their archives. Hopefully, they accept the request.

Uh, what is "C-news for SCO"?

The source code from utzoo is just fine on this SCO Unix box, and on
SCO Xenix, so why should any version even slightly derivative be
archived anywhere?

-- 
Jean-Pierre Radley   Unix in NYC   jpr@jpr.com   jpradley!jpr   CIS: 72160,1341
From: ash@omega.uucp (Andrew Hardie)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Test - please ignore
Date: 8 Sep 92 21:57:40 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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Test message to scogen@xenitec.on.ca
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From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: How to connect a modem to one of the ports on Digiboard?
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 03:40:32 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.003150.425@xenitec.on.ca> news@xenitec.on.ca (xenitec.on.ca News Administrator) writes:
>HOSSEIN writes:
>> Hi,  I am trying to connect a modem to one of the 16 ports we have on a 
>> Digiboard.  Our system is a 486/33 runing SCO unix SV/386. I have changed the 
>> entries in /etc/inittab and /usr/lib/uucp/Devices, but still doesn't work.
>> When I try 'cu', it gives me a 'lost carrier' message.  I have checked the 
>> modem and the channel and both are o.k.  
>> Would you give me some hints on this matter?
>

If you are using an RJ45 from the DIGI to the modem, you should specify
a 'ditty altpin <port>'. This will make it so the DSR line is used as the
CD line. You need to make sure the pin 8 on the Digi RJ45 goes to pin 20
on the Modem connection. This is from memory so, I might be wrong on the
pins outs. But the DSR goes to the CD pin on the modem connection. 

This works for the DIGICON C/X. I would think that the same would apply
for the other DIGI PRODUCTS. IF you want to test the line, drop a null 
modem connector on the Modem end and connect to it as a terminal i.e.
DCE to DCE device. You could make a connector with the RJ45 8 wire with
RED as 2, Green as 3, and Yellow to 7. Yellow is ground.  This would
let you test the DIGI as a terminal line to verify the connection. You
would only have Software flow control. You will run into problems on 
some programs like PCPLUS where it expects a carrier detect when
doing file transfers. Telix doesn't seem to care.
 
I can double check this for you. But, I am pretty sure I am right.
 
Ken

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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: jle9162@zeus.tamu.edu (ECKHARDT, JASON LEE)
Subject: X11R4 efs for SCO
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 18:32:00 GMT

  I recently installed the X11R4 server supplement on top of my Xsight
set up. Everything is working fine except the text of the menus is not
there. It's just a few pixels where the text should be. The menus pop up
but you can't read the items...
  How do I fix this...(maybe something to do with the fonts?)

Thanks, jason.
From: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence)
Subject: Re: Tecmar tape drive and 2.3.4 Xenix
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: biz
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 10:40:58 GMT

In article <BuDvv5.2JF@world.std.com> apl@world.std.com (I) write:
>Simple story:  upgraded client to 2.3.4.
>
>The Tecmar (wangtek controller) tape drive was installed in 2.3.2
>as 300H, dma 3, int 5, type T.
>
>And so it is in 2.3.4 :-)
>
>Tape is seen on boot. 'tape status' works.
>
>tar tvf /dev/rct0 spins the tape, gurgles a few times, and then
>
>LOCKS THE MACHINE SOLID!

And when I turned on my machine this morning, I had an answer from
Bela Lubkin.  Apparently 2.3.4 has a problem with INT 3.  SCO has
a patch and a XNX disk.

That's good, and thank you Bela.

But what I'm wondering now is:  Over the past year or so I've upgraded
at least a dozen people to 2.3.4.  Never had a problem with a tape
drive (and most of 'em are int 3).  Or am I dreaming?  Is it possible
that not one of those people had a tape at int 3?  Hard to believe.

Oh well. All's well that ends well.

		Tony


Lawrence & Clark, Inc		(617) 762-0707	(206) 323-2864
Xenix/Unix support,etc 	 	 Boston		 Seattle
From: paul@openage.COM (Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: RE: Laser Optics wiring
Keywords: lightening
Date: 9 Sep 92 14:14:07 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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>We plan to install an ODT system that will be connected to several remote 
>buildings either to other ODT boxes, PCs or terminals. Could be either serial 
>or ethernet.

>This is in Florida lightening country and previous installations in the area 
>have always resulted in painful lessons about surges, blowouts etc. 

>Has anybody learned to over come this problem with fiberoptics cabling? 
>Products?  Sources?  Can this be done by an inexperienced installer (as far as
>fiber is concerned) We would really like to have some kind of a mux box that 
>would be connected via one fiber cable but have several more common serial or 
>ethernet lines at each end.

Several companies make ethernet over fiber transceivers.  Cabletron and 
Synoptics both make FO boards for their ethernet hubs.

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From: rim@bme.ri.ccf.org (Robert M. Cothren)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: SLS via Internet ftp?
Date: 15 Sep 92 13:13:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

I need to get a copy of the crypt libraries for tcsh (lng225, I
think).  I don't have access to uucp.  Are SLSes available from
someplace via anonymous ftp?

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    Biomed. Engineering and Applied Therapeutics   
    The Cleveland Clinic Foundation                voice: 216 445-9305
----Cleveland, Ohio----------------------------------fax: 216 444-9198----
From: paul@openage.COM (Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: Are the Registration cards too much wor
Date: 10 Sep 92 00:31:31 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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>> Several people at SCO Forum said that some huge number (~>90%) of their
>> customers never fill out the registration part of their pink cards.
>We do, but also realise that we are a rarity.
>Nothing.

>Also, when you unpack your system are the first thing to do is to install the
>package & get it going - why bother with a bit of (useless) administration ?
>Later on when things are calmer it has probably been forgotten about.

But if it were more compact, or offered goodies, like a drawing for 3 months of 
support, or a free widget later would it become more of a priority?  Americans 
love to enter contest,  What about the europeans?

>SCO may get a higher return rate if it gave something away as a result of
>receiving the cards (like support, or a newsletter, ...). That would/may result
>in 1 card per site (but not bother with multiple installs), some people do this.
>SCO have to work out what the information is worth to them, ie how much
>they are prepared to spend to get the info, my guess is not a lot as it is
>mainly of interest to the marketing people - who can get that info from
>somewhere else.

>> I personally think this card is too big and should be cut down to a 3x5" card
>> and then a user survey can be sent later.  I would like to see some discussion
>> about how SCO could get more of these filled out.
>If you are going to fill it in, then you only fill in the bits that you
>can be bothered to fill in. I don't think that a smaller card will do much.

>I suppose that there is an onus on the reseller to provide much of the same
>info anyway.

>The other way that registration cards could be used is to prevent theft
>(ie installing the package more than once), the SCO serial #/activation key
>isn't really up to doing this.

What else can they do if their resellers aren't giving them account info for 
marketing?

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From: news@xenitec.on.ca (xenitec.on.ca News Administrator)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: C-News for SCO.
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:39:18 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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Ken Germann writes:
> The reason for wanting to submit the C-News in a custom installable format
> is for those individuals who don't have the luxury of a C Compiler. I get
> about 5 requests a week for the C-News that is installable through custom.
> I tried for three weeks to get the C-News from utzoo to compile under
> SCO Unix 3.2.4. 

It took me an hour or so to compile C-News on SCO 3.2v4.

Did you succeed?

The place for such a compiled version should not be uunet, but sosco,
which has been carrying a ready-to-go B-news: persuade them to replace that
with C-news.

-- 
Jean-Pierre Radley   Unix in NYC   jpr@jpr.com   jpradley!jpr   CIS: 72160,1341
From: news@xenitec.on.ca (xenitec.on.ca News Administrator)
Subject: sosco mirrors
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 00:34:49 GMT
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Does someone have at hand the number for scolon?

And are there any other sites besides sosco and scolon with all the SLSs and
the rest, in other countries?

TIA
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Jean-Pierre Radley   Unix in NYC   jpr@jpr.com   jpradley!jpr   CIS: 72160,1341
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: uhlig@awssn5.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Maciek Uhlig)
Subject: extra packets on SLIP line in ODT 1.1
Organization: Comp. Cent. University of Stuttgart (RUS), FRG
Distribution: biz
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 11:47:07 GMT

Does anybody know, why tracing of SLIP line from SCO ODT 1.1 shows
together with expected packets something like that:

serial line VJ Uncompressed TCP: len 4 connection ID 0 or 6
IP: bad header
?
Obviously it's a garbage which is confusing my POP client.
Is there a way to get rid of that?
Other usefyul information is transported correctly.

Maciek Uhlig
muhlig@usctoux1.cto.us.edu.pl
From: lee@dlpco.dlpco.COM (Lee Penn)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Changing Adaptec 1740 to enhanced mode.
Keywords: scsi enhanced mode
Date: 6 Sep 92 13:36:04 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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>From uunet.uucp!xenitec.on.ca!news Sun Sep  6 06:18:51 1992
>To: distribution@xenitec.on.ca
>Path: xenitec!news.byu.edu!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!uunet!safn2!rey
>From: rey <xenitec.on.ca!uunet!safn2!rey@uunet>
>Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
>Subject: Changing Adaptec 1740 to enhanced mode.
>Keywords: scsi enhanced mode
>Message-Id: <205@safn8.UUCP>
>Date: 2 Sep 92 17:51:02 GMT
>Organization: SAF Customer Service, Atlanta GA


>SCO Magazine July/Aug 1992 p18 describes the change from ad to eiad driver.

>What benefits would I get? 
>       EISA Bus Adaptec 1740
>               Maxtor LXT-213S 200 meg disk.
>               Archive Viper 150 2124 Tape.

>Does either device use enhanced features? Is the driver change worth doing?
>-- 
>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                                                        rey@saf.com

We ran a quick test here using the FUJITSU 520 Meg drive. Without 
the enhanced mode, we got around 800KB/Sec transfer rate on a 
486/33 EISA box.  With enhanced mode on, we got 2 Megs/Sec 
transfer rate.

Simple and dirty test was

        time dd if=/dev/hd00 of=/dev/null bs=2048 count=8192

This is a 16 megabyte dump and took less than 8 seconds with 
enhanced mode and 23 seconds in normal mode.

IOZONE would give much better info, but this is quick and 
indicates a major advantage in turning on enhanced mode.  

================================================================================
Lee Penn,  DLP Technologies, Inc.                     Voice: 513 232-7791
SCO Advanced Product Center                           FAX: (513) 232-7801
7444 Jager Ct.
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From: ken%seaweed.uucp@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Seefried III)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: SNMP and ISODE
Date: 12 Sep 92 20:32:58 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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I am interested in hearing from anyone who has ported CMU SNMP
and ISODE to SCO Unix 3.2.4.  I am especially interested in anyone
using ISODE on SCO to build distributed applications and/or X.400
services.

				- ken seefried iii
				  the sargasso group
				  uunet!emory!seaweed!ken
From: ericd@cats.ucsc.edu (Eric D Davis)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Exabyte 2.3Gb SCSI and Xenix (help)
Date: 10 Sep 92 04:27:18 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu



Posting for a friend.....

I have a 2.3Gb Exabyte SCSI tape drive and am trying to 
get it to work with Xenix. We currently have Xenix 2.3.2GT
and a 1542B SCSI host adapter. (disks are ESDI on another controller)
Anyway 2.3.2GT will not operate this drive properly. When accessed 
the drive spins up, attempts to write the first file and fails, returning
driver error status codes from the AHA registers. The drive/controller
work without a hitch under Unix 3.2.4. We have also run the onboard
Adaptec test routines and they pass with flying colors.

SCO support thought that 2.3.4GT might cure the problem, but was not 
sure. Pre-sales also did not know, but promised to send me the tape matrix
chart via fax, which still has not arrived.

I am seeking any info on wether this drive will work with 2.3.4.

Thanks 
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From: belal@sco.COM (Bela Lubkin)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: What is tag RAM?
Date: 15 Sep 92 00:26:58 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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Paul Fischer wrote:

> But what is TAG RAM?  I've never heard the term before.

This is a subject for comp.arch, not biz.sco.general ... so I will give
a quick answer and leave it there.

A cache is typically a smaller, faster piece of storage used to store
the most frequently (or recently) used areas of a larger, slower piece
of storage.  In this case they are dynamic RAM and fast static RAM.

Each location in cache could potentially contain data from any of a
number of different locations from main memory.  Tag RAM accompanies
each parcel of cache RAM and tells the hardware which location in main
memory is currently cached in this parcel of cache.

For instance, your CD player might be considered a 1-CD cache (or 5-, or
6-CD, depending on your cartridge).  The tag RAM is the little pile of
empty CD cases on top of the player, that let you tell at a glance which
CD's are currently in cache.  Capeche?  ;-}  >Bela<
From: brian@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca (Brian J. Murrell)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: sulogin - what happens next??
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:10:59 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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I have a machine which seems to have a burp when trying to enter single user
mode.  init comes up and spawns sulogin to get either the root passwd or a
<CTRL>-d.  If I enter the <CTRL>-d it boots to multi-user mode, however if I
enter the root password, I get a display of my environment and then every
thing halts.

I'v seen this behaviour (showing me the environment )when a set command is used 
to set up $1, $2, $3... with some values and is supposed to have arguments 
but doesn't.

i.e.

set `somecommand`

would set $1, $2, $3... to the output of somecommand, but for some reason
somecommand doesn't have any output.

so what happens after sulogin gets the root passwd.  Does it start a shell
immediatly (sp?) or does it do some set up??

brian

-- 
Brian J. Murrell                                        brian@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca
InterLinx Support Services, Inc.                        uunet!van-bc!ilinx!brian
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        Platform and Brand Independent UNIX Support - R3.2 - R4 - BSD
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: news@xenitec.on.ca (xenitec.on.ca News Administrator)
Subject: Re: Front end menu systems
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 22:33:08 GMT
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Nikki Locke writes:
> > > Or is there even one that comes with SCO ? It occurs to me that sysadmsh 
> > > might be written using something like this.
> > 
> > Yes, type "scosh" and see...
> $ scosh
> ksh: scosh:  not found
> $ find / -name scosh -print
> $
> 
> Any ideas ? :-)

You did say Unix 3.2v4?

Run 'custom', it sounds like you didn't install that package.

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From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: MMDF Errors
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:36:13 GMT


I removed SMAIL, made sure MMDF was removed. I reinstalled MMDF. I still
get the mailbox format errors. 

All of these problems started to occur when I tried to install smail. I would
like to go back to MMDF. Thus far haven't had much luck.
-- 
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From: davidf@golem.uucp (David J. Fiander)
Subject: Re: Mailing Lists
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:35:12 GMT

According to Steven E. Frazier <sfrazier@norstan.com>:
>
>I would like to put an entry into the alias.ali file like:
>
>allusers:	mmdf|"mail | /usr/local/local/alluserscript"
>
>Then if I added or deleted people, anytime someone sent a message to
>"allusers@norstan.com" it would run the script to get an active list
>on the fly.

	allusers	mmdf|"resend `/usr/local/alluserscript`"

Another option is to do:

	allusers	:include:/usr/mmdf/table/allusers

And run a cron job every night to make sure that the allusers
file is up to date relative to the passwd file (if you have
make(CP), that would help).

- David
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