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From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Dell SVR4: no SCSI support for Exabyte and/or CDROM?
Date: 21 Aug 92 11:37:49 GMT
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745

edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:

>Unless Dell has broken something, they should also support a Toshiba
>3201A CD-ROM or similar with a 1542 SCSI controller.  It's in the

Dell sells the Sony CD-Roms -- but like you mentioned, there
is currently no support to mount the CD-Rom so it would be up
to the user to write utilities or a file system for the device.

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From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: FAQ maintainer needs some leverage on Dell
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:08:44 GMT
Distribution: world

In <1992Aug18.024806.14787@pcthree.com> Steve Monroe wrote:
> How can it be free software if there are expenses involved???

Sorry, I would have thought this was obvious.

Free to everyone else, after I'm done with it.  The expense is my time.
-- 
					Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
From: jkk@daimi.aau.dk (Jens Kristian Kj{rg}rd)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: rcp woes on ISC v3.0 TCP/IP v1.3
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:36:47 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:

>I have just installed TCP/IP v1.3 on two ISC v3.0 machines: 'aegis'
>is on a Dell 386 33MHZ, 'ira' is on a TechPower 486 33MHz.  Both are
>running Sureman NE-13 (system says they are WD013EBT when it boots)
>and thin Ethernet. In addition, NFS v2.2 is installed.

>rlogin, ftp, telnet, rsh and file systems mounted with NFS are OK.
>But rcp only works maybe once or twice when ira gives up (usually
>when copying a file > 100K, only part of it is copied). The rcp
>process hangs (on either machine) and I can't get anything back from
>'ping ira' on ira. Rebooting ira lets it run until I do another
>couple of rcp's. 

>The boards have been switched between the machines (both run the
>same strap/DIP settings) and it does the same thing, it's always ira
>that ceases to work. 

I have expirenced a similar problem using an NE2000 ethernet board.
The problem looks to me like a memory allocation problem on the net card
as when configuring NFS for 8 kbyte buffersize communications hangs
after a short time whereas configured with 1kbyte buffers it works
alright. If anybody has suggestions how to solve or circumvent the problem
it will be very much appreciated. 


Jens Kristian Kjaergaard
jkk@daimi.aau.dk
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: Recommendations wanted on PC Unix system purchase
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 01:03:12 GMT

lance@markv.com (Lance Ellinghouse) writes:

>If he purchases SCO OpenDeskTop (ODT) ver 2.0 or greater, EVERYTHING
>comes with it.. X-windows, Motif 1.1.3, NFS, TCP/IP, etc..
>And this version (2.0) is VERY stable sofar.. They have done a GREAT job
>cleaning it up. The only thing is that if you are planning on running
>X-windows, you REALLY need 16meg of RAM.

but ODT only comes with support for a couple of users -- unless one
spends another grand to upgrade -- likewise, ODT lacks the developers
package -- which is another grand on top of the grand for unlimited users
and the original purchase price of ODT

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Recommendations wanted on PC Unix system purchase
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:10:09 GMT

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

>  Maybe they should start shipping V.4 installed on their notebooks, and
>let them figure out how to get it in if you can't load from floppy. Or

Personnally, I wouldn't buy a system like that unless there was also a way
for ME to re-load the OS.  Otherwise, what will you do if the disk crashes?
Send the machine back to them to re-load your OS?


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: jason@oaknet.chi.il.us (Jason Vanick)
Subject: Problem with the Xwindows binaries on SVR3.2
Organization: OAKNET - public access unix
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 13:07:05 GMT

I am trying to get the X11R4 binaries from flop.informatic.tu-muenchen.de
to work on my 386 running AT&T System V release 3.2 version 2.1
When I use xinit to start X, I get the following error:
XIO:	fatal IO error 5 (I/O error) on X server "L       "
	after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
And it leaves a core dump in the directory... which when I use gdb on
it: the following is told to me...
(gdb) core core
Core was generated by `X'.
#0  0x29f9e in ?? (Cannot access memory at address 0x2bab4.
(gdb)
and it gives the same memory address every time!
Does anybody have any ideas on how I could get this working?
Please send email to jason@oaknet.chi.il.us
and I will summarize to the net.
Thanks,
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From: rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Dell SVR4: no SCSI support for Exabyte and/or CDROM?
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:21:27 GMT
Organization: SOW-VU, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:

-edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:

->Unless Dell has broken something, they should also support a Toshiba
->3201A CD-ROM or similar with a 1542 SCSI controller.  It's in the

-Dell sells the Sony CD-Roms -- but like you mentioned, there
-is currently no support to mount the CD-Rom so it would be up
-to the user to write utilities or a file system for the device.

And do they tell the buyers it won't work on Dell SVR4? No utilities
and/or filesystem support is no support!!
Why is SCSI support so minimal in the PC world? Workstations support
new SCSI devices like Exabyte, DAT, CD-ROM very soon after the new
devices hit the market!

--
Ronald van der Pol
rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl
From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: how to write 525MB to Wangtek 525ES on Dell 2.1?
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:17:26 GMT
Organization: RAND Corporation.

I use a Wangtek 5525ES under Esix 4.0.3.  I've had no problem backup up
more than 500MB to it.  I have a DC6250 here which it put 262MB on,
and a DC6150 with 160MB.  The only tape I ever had a problem reading
was a Sony 6150.  I don't buy Sony's any more.

It doesn't write 60MB tapes, but it reads them just fine.  This is a
hardware limitation of the 5525ES.  I've written 60MB tapes on our old
Archive's (OEM'd by Sun) at work and read them in without a hitch.

Only one problem with this drive: it's noisy!  The Archive's I've used
purr--this Wangtek whines.

I used this drive briefly under ISC 2.0.1.  It wouldn't handle 525MB
tapes (by which I mean they simply wouldn't work) but it did fine
with 150's and 250's.  This experience may or may not apply to other
SysVr3.2's.

		-Ed Hall
		edhall@rand.org
Xref: sparky comp.unix.sysv386:13247 comp.os.linux:8453
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.xenix.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Xenix (tm) emulation for Linux almost works :-)
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:01:39 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1992Aug16.231426.9704@mcshh.Hanse.DE>, umisef@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Bernd Meyer) writes:

| And wouldn't it be fun, just running MS-Winword withhout MS-Windows (Hehe,
| Bill, here we smile :-)))

  A better windows than windows... I've heard that before. Sure would
like to see it, for all the reasons you mention!

-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
From: jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: FAS 2.10 async driver, part 5/5
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:32:40 GMT
Organization: InCC.com Perwez Belgium

In article <RAYMOND.92Aug20100322@cobra.es.ele.tue.nl>, raymond@es.ele.tue.nl (Raymond Nijssen) writes:
> In article <103.2423@incc.com> jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur) writes:
> 
> >   In article <1992Aug18.180159.9122@telesys.tnet.com>, kreed@telesys.tnet.com (Kevin W. Reed) writes:
> >> davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
> >> 
> >> >In article <102.26574@incc.com>, jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur) writes:

	
> >   [...] some of you who were abusive
> >   and offensive really shine the light on what I can only describe as pimply
                                                                          ^^^^^^
                                                                          ^^^^^^
> >   faced ignorant university types, or loud mouthed, 5' 2" nobodys who get 
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> >   their thrills by being offensive in email, anyway, you know who you are 
> 
> Jerry, this is the SECOND TIME you insult people on the net.
> Now who do you think you are? You just can't stop, can you? Even so, I would
> strongly advise you to keep a very, very low profile.


> | Raymond Nijssen         | Eindhoven University of Techology
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 13:22:28 GMT

larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:

>bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes:
>Bull.  My Dell box runs and runs.  I remember running ISC (granted
>2.20 with their old 1.2 TCP release) and it hung.
[...]
Dell Hype Deleted
[...]
>My machine doesn't hang.  Maybe yours does, but mine doesn't.

Sounds good.  As I specifically mentioned, I am running ESIX 3.2, not Dell
or anything else.  If Dell is really *that* reliable, it sounds like it's
well worth the upgrade.

In addition to a hang (occasionally, not very often), there are other problems
like serial ports ceasing to respond, etc., etc.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: scum@pcthree.com (Steve Monroe)
Subject: Re: FAQ maintainer needs some leverage on Dell
Organization: PC Three
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 02:48:06 GMT

esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:

>I'm struggling pretty hard to meet the expenses created by all the time I've
>spent on free software and net.projects.

How can it be free software if there are expenses involved???


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scum@pcthree.com             FAX:(703)406-2078                  P.O. Box 1644
                                                              Herndon, VA 22070
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: how to write 525MB to Wangtek 525ES on Dell 2.1?
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 14:30:09 GMT

rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol) writes:


>We have a Wangtek 525ES SCSI cartridge tape drive which should be
>able to write various formats (525, 250, 150 MB). But how do you
>choose the format? There don't seem to be different special files
>for different formats. So how should it be done?

I belive the tape and drive determine this -- ie: put a 150 meg tape
in the drive will yield 250 megs, a 60 meg will yield 120 megs

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: Recommendations wanted on PC Unix system purchase
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:02:06 GMT

evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:

>You get an OS way cheaper than SCO (street price for ESIX is below Dell),
>the added features of R4, and the freedom to choose your own *supported*
>hardware from an assortment of vendors.

But ESIX isn't as tweaked and tested as Dell (as the net has heard from
users recently) -- don't get me wrong, ESIX is fine for a machine at home
to play around with --- but for serious development and support --?

>ESIX support is no-charge and helpful. If you're smart and/or lucky you
>can get ESIX from a VAR who is familiar with the specific applications you
>want to run, and can provide more localized/specialized help.

ESIX doesn't return phone calls (or didn't for us), and required our Fed-Ex
number in order to mail us replacement media and bug fixes (the places
I've done business with don't charge shipping for bug fixes)

ESIX doesn't (or didn't) include DOS support under UNIX either

>With ESIX you can save more money by buying it without its GUIs, and
>getting either the free implementation of X11R5, or the commercial ones
>offered by a number of third-party vendors. Going this route, the choice
>of video gets broader still.

but you have to hunt around and get this and that to make a complete package,
where as Dell is just about sole source -- comes complete and ready to run
gcc, emacs, news, nntp, elm, etc right out of the box --

and ethernet installation (ie: loading machines via network) makes installation
on multiple machines a piece of cake!

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: FAS 2.10 async driver, part 5/5
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:26:57 GMT

davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:

>found.  But a lot of people use FAS (I do) and Uwe probably had some
>good reason for posting it where he did (thanks Uwe!)

Dave, I would guess that he wanted to make sure that small Intel-type sites
that don't necessarily get the source groups were able to get this new
useful piece of software.

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Xref: sparky comp.unix.sysv386:13320 comp.os.linux:8581
From: vid@zooid.guild.org (David Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.xenix.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Xenix (tm) emulation for Linux almost works :-)
Date: 18 Aug 92 15:51:42 GMT

From: umisef@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Bernd Meyer)
>Well, guys, just a thought of mine - should be somhow more stable than an 
>messy-dos emulation. MS-Windows-programs just have to use the system-calls.
>No direct fussing around with VGA-cards, serial ports, printers and that 
>stuff....
>And wouldn't it be fun, just running MS-Winword withhout MS-Windows (Hehe,
>Bill, here we smile :-)))
>

Hey! I'd pay for that!

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 17:22:15 GMT

larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>grant@bluemoon.rn.com (Grant DeLorean) writes:
>> Betcha couldn't guess what I am now running (SPARC 2)... :-}  Want
>>to buy some ISC UNIX?
>Don't be so quick to judge Intel based UNIX.  With the proper hardware
>and OS an Intel machine could out do your Sparc.

I think the Sparc technology is advancing faster than the PC technology.
My 486/33 is about twice as fast as a Sun/386i and about comparable with
a Sun Sparc/IPC (except slower on scrolling since I'm using VGA - I agree
 the proper hardware could make the 486 faster).  However using a Sun
Sparc/*IPX* makes the 486/33 seem downright doggy!  Just compare the loading
of a large mailbox in elm to see what I mean.

Of course once the Sparc/10 (80+ mips (per processor)) hits the street,
the INTEL line will be eating lots of dust!
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From: joubert@teldata.UUCP (Joubert Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: fstab for Esix
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:21:41 GMT
Organization: Advance Financial Corporation / Teldate Computer Industries, Inc.

Could some kind sole mail me a copy of their /etc/fstab file.  I belew mine
away, and now I don''t remember what was in it.  Many thanks in advance...

				Joubert
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.xenix.sco,alt.sources
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: WHY ARE FREE OS'S IGNORED?!
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:47:48 GMT

peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>> >Because it is comp.unix.sysv386, not comp.os.linux.

>> >Any more questions?

>> When did BSD become sys V :-)

>Not much BSD discussion in this group that I can see. Next?

Free OS's cost me too much money.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Subject: Re: inline _asm support for DELLs cc?
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 16:42:17 GMT

melchers@Chico.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE (Bernd Melchers) writes:

>Does the c compiler for DELL Unix support inline
>assembler within a c program like this:

Most C compilers in the 386 UNIX environment support asm as a pseudo function
call.  Your function could be coded as follows:

	asm("	.text");
	asm("	.align 4");
	asm("	.globl Mips2...");
	asm("Mips2...");
	...



>#ifdef MSDOS
>long int _fastcall Mips2IntelDoubleword(long int dw /* in DX:AX */)

a long int is 4 bytes in the x86 environment and therefore is usually stored
in an extended register like eax or edx.  This code appears to be oriented
toward MS-DOS and it's 16 bit real mode as opposed to UNIX.
-- 
*** SENTINEL(tm) The ultimate Debugging Environment - email for more info ***

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From: jochen@mrz.sub.org (Jochen Fahrner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO: loosing characters on serial port
Date: 18 Aug 92 09:55:19 GMT
	<Bt4IBM.GJy@gator.rn.com>
Organization: Muenchener Rechenzentrum, Munich/Bavaria
X-Md4-Signature: 99fc778b57a51b985686515075d8cd2e

In article <Bt4IBM.GJy@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:

   Yes -- we have a 486/50 running SCO 3.2.2 and have a dumb serial port
   locked at 19200 (it's not a 16550AFN) and we get a steady 1260-1320 cps
   on outbound traffic, and 800 cps on inbound.

I think you have the same problem. Why do you only get 800 cps on
inbound traffic ? This should be the same as outbound.
The cause is probably, that you loose incoming characters, which cause
the uucp protocol to stop, waiting for a timeout.

You should try the following:
Login to your News-Site with a normal shell account and do something
like "ls -lR", which you can check easy for loosing characters. At the
same time do something like "while : ; cp /unix /tmp/unix; done" in
the background.

You can also watch the Rx-Led on your modem when uucico receives large
files. The Rx-Led should never stop flickering. If it does for more
than one second, you probably loose incoming characters.

I just spoke with our dealer: the german distributor, from which he
receives the adaptec controllers, knows about problems with adaptec
1542 in multitasking systems like OS/2 or unix. Even in DOS
environments problems are reported.  But adaptec always says, it's not
their controller, these are timing problems with the mainboard. This
distributor recommends: don't use the 1542 in multitasking systems,
use the 1522 (which is not so good in performance with large disks),
use the 1742 (in EISA systems) or use an adapter from other
manufacturers like Future Domain or DPT.

P.S.: To all mainboard manufacturers in this world: Make it
Adaptec-1542-compatible :-) :-) :-)
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: 386bsd
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:57:46 GMT
Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung

In <1992Aug19.165847.7467@engage.pko.dec.com> eje@irenaeus.mlo.dec.com (Eric James Ewanco) writes:


>Is this an OK place to talk about 386bsd, since we don't yet have a 386bsd
>newsgroup?

>I just installed it and wanted to find anyone who could answer some questions.
>Where are 386bsd folks hanging out?  Are we permitted to discuss 386bsd stuff
>here?

>Eric Ewanco
>--
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>| Digital Equipment Corp, Maynard MA  pressed herein I alone am responsible;  |
>| ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com          they do not belong to DIGITAL(TM).      |
>\==============================- 2 Th 2:15 -==================================/

The discussion group of 386bsd and BSD/386 is comp.unix.bsd.

Holger

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: UFS , SVR4, and inodes limits
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:04:31 GMT

mike@hatch.socal.com (Mike Bernadett) writes:

>decreasing nbpi (block-to-inode ratio) on my AT&T SVR4 gives me a warning that
>I'm going above 64K, but doesn't do anything -- I still get ~20,000 inodes
>on a 125MB filesystem until I increase the number of cylinder groups.

I don't get the warning -- here on all my drives I used nbpi=8096 *except*
for the news partition where I believe I used nbpi=1024 -- of course, I also
use free=0 and opt=t when running mkfs on the ufs filesystems

using the 8096 gives me more disk space (over the default which I believe
is 2048) on the drives which don't need all the inodes

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386