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From: thu@huedv.sta.sub.org (Thomas Huppertz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: VP/ix or Merge and CD-ROM
Date: 14 Aug 92 21:18:48 GMT
Reply-To: thu@huedv.hu.sub.org
Organization: HUPPERTZ EDV-Beratung, Thererstr. 10, 8083 Mammendorf, Germany

davidto@siesoft.co.uk (David Tollow) writes:

>I have a question about the support for CD-ROM under VP/ix or Merge.
>What I want to achieve is to allow a number of users running DOS
>sessions under VP/ix or Merge (preferably on serial terminals) to
>simultaneously access the data on a CD-ROM drive.

You don't need the CD-ROM-Support in VP/ix.
In Interactive Unix (ISC-3.0) there is support for the High-Sierra
filesystem for unix.
And if you youse DOS you can go through the complete Unix-Filesystem
including the CD-ROM-files.

Attention: If you have the ISC-3.0 take care of the Scsi-Bug-Fix-Disk.
Without this Bug-Fixes you'll run into problems, when working with
CD-ROM under VP/ix.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: dlparker@dlpinc00.rn.com (David L. Parker)
Subject: Re: Anyone heard of the BocaBoard?
Organization: Automated Data Management Services
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 18:48:45 GMT

In article <2A95BEE8.5424@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>A company that has so far made its reputation on clone VGA and memory
>cards has quietly announced what seems a step backwards; new-design
>non-intelligent serial port cards.
>
>Boca Resaerch (of Boca Raton, FL -- surprise) has something called at
>BocaBoard, which has eight RJ-12 jacks on the back of the board.
>
>Its UARTs -- two of them -- are ST16C554s. The brochure says "each
>ST16C554 chip is equivalent to four NS16C550s with FIFO buffering".
>
>Other stuff from the glossy:
>
>I/O addresses are assigned in blocks of 0x40 10-bit addresses based
>at the following start addresses:
>
>000	040	080	0C0	100	140	180	1C0
>200	240	280	2C0	300	340	380	3C0
>
>The interrupt switchable to 3,4,5,7,10,11,12,15
>
>The board is claimed to come with drivers for SCO Xenix and SCO UNIX.
>I wouldn't give the thing a second glance if it wasn't for the
>possibility of FAS or SAS working with it. I also wonder of the
>"initasy" script supplied with ESIX would be able to support it
>properly.
>
>Would SAS or FAS be possible on all eight ports of this thing? The
>8-port card sells for a dealer price of under $130US. A four-port
>version is under $90.
>
>Worth it?
>-- 
> Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
>         evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
>    Was "Trouble" (from the Broadway Show, Music Man) the first rap song?

I've wondered about this one, too.  If it's got shareable interrupts,
and the buffering on the UARTs actually works under FAS, I'd think it 
would indeed be worth it.  I don't think getting it to work under FAS
would be a problem.  I'd just want to make sure that the UARTs would
be the functional equivalents, under FAS, of 16550AFNs.  Also, it
would be nice if it's a half card, then I could fit one in my luggable.
-- 
Dave Parker
Automated Data Management Services, Pleasant Hill, MO 64080-1331
(816) 987-5167/5218 voice/fax
From: bill@ssbn.wlk.com (Bill Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: FAQ maintainer needs some leverage on Dell
Summary: Where's the bake off?
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:06:54 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. & Associates, Pipe Creek, TX

In article <1hVYCD#7ZSkQz2cy1MT8bqvGm2nJD38=esr@snark.thyrsus.com> esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>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.

I want to stay in the same thread but go back to an earlier subject, that's
why I kept the text of Steve and Eric's colloquy.  In this same thread a
couple of weeks ago I asked what had happened to the bake off.  The discussion
has wandered in several directions since, e.g. the above, but the silence with
regard to the bake off has been deafening.

Let me make my questions easier to understand by explaining what I understand.
I thought that Eric threw out the gauntlet a couple of months ago to ask
hardware vendors to provide their top-of-the-line fire breathers so that he
could set them down side by side and tell sysv386 readers what equipment does
the best job on the same work mix.  If I'm wrong about that then my questions
should be ignored (but somebody tell me I'm wrong so I'll shut up).  A couple
of weeks ago Eric posted another article asking for net.persuasion to coax
Dell into joining in the bake off, apparently they had declined his invitation.
There was a lot of conversation about that, including some needlessly rude
comments directed at Conor Cahill.  I brought that up to jog memories, not to
tear off scabs.

I asked then and I ask now, what's the status of the bake off?  I was led to
believe it was to be done by now.  When I last followed up I said the same
thing but nobody said it was even underway yet, much less finished.  So let
me try again.  What's the status of the bake off?  What vendors are in it?
What models of motherboards, video cards, disk controllers are being or will
be evaluated?  What tests are going to be run?  Are there any interim results
worth mentioning?  When will it be done?  When will the results be posted?

I suppose that my remarks and questions could be misconstrued as twisting
Eric's tail, so be it.  I'm not impatient (well maybe a little) that it's
not done, I'm impatient because I followed up to a black hole.  Has there
not been enough time to collect the vendors' equipment?  Was some of it
broken and therefore delayed its evaluation?  I can't believe that Eric's
too busy to tell us what's going on, he has been quite vocal answering
other items.  So what's the score?  I'm going to keep asking until someone
answers.
-- 
Bill Kennedy      bill@ssbn.WLK.COM     | Novell is to networking
                                        | as CBASIC was to programming
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: dave@hp1.holl.com (David Vrona)
Subject: Re: FAQ maintainer needs some leverage on Dell
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 02:44:32 GMT
Organization: Hollister Incorporated,  Libertyville, IL

In article <1hLvGO#44MpZl1CRNdW4HT8OT1dpdM2=esr@snark.thyrsus.com> esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>In <1992Aug3.133049.14513@virtech.uucp> Conor P. Cahill wrote:
>> I don't think there was any less offensive way to say what I said.  I was
>> plainly stating my opinion (the use of the word *think* should have made 
>> that clear) as to what I thought of this attempt at coercion.
>                                                      ^^^^^^^^
>Coercion?!?
>
>You really are a blithering idiot.
>-- 
>					Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>

Anyone who has been around this group knows better.  You really sealed your
fate this time Mr. Raymond.


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: nlane@well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane)
Subject: Re: Need help getting X running under SysV R4
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 03:12:40 GMT

You may also want to check to make sure that you have some free virtual
terminals.  X takes the first available virtual terminal and if you have eight 
running through getty's (or is it 12?), then X will find no screen to open.
The device names are "vt00" through "vt07" (or "vt11").

-Nathan Lane
Trico Title Company, Santa Barbara, CA

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: bin. distribution for Tex/LaTex?
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745
Distribution: comp.unix.sysv386
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 12:12:04 GMT

shih@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Alan S. Shih) writes:

>can ANYONE tell me where to find binary distributions of TeX and LaTeX
>for SysvR4? I have seen it before but forget where it is.  However, I

I hate to say this - but to my suprise Dell now ships TeX with 
their SVR4 2.2 release.  Yes -- it's all ready to run "out of the
box".  Of course, source code is also distributed for all the GNU
products on the end of the tape.

I haven't fired it up - since I (as of today) have no need for it

If you don't have Dell, try ftping to dell.com and snooping around.

Dell updated a good portion of the GNU software, plus added several
packages with the 2.2 release keeping it on top.  Dell once again
spent the time to fix the bugs in the stock product instead of being
the first guy to ship (which typically results in having the most
bugs).

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: gie@charon.er.usgs.gov (Gerald I. Evenden)
Subject: Use of scanners on SVR4
Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 15:19:57 GMT

Has anyone installed and used a scanner, such as HP's ScanJet, on a
[3|4]86 system with Dell's SVR4 and Merge to handle vendor supplied DOS
interfacing to the scanner?

This question subdivides into two issues:

1. Problems with DOS procedures, supplied with hardware, handling 
	bus I/O devices and

2. Can Microsoft Windows, often required by vendor interfaces, be
	handled under Merge---with or without X11 running?

An ancillary question is: can commercial DOS OCR programs be used in
this environment or, better yet, are there any viable OCR software
available for SVR4 Unix?

I would greatly appreciate any comments.

Mainly, am I crazy to even attempt this?

Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: jhpb@sarto.budd-lake.nj.us (Joseph H. Buehler)
Subject: UUCP disconnects on ESIX SVR4.0.3 using ZyXEL modem
Organization: none
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 00:00:16 GMT

I am having a problem with an ESIX SVR4.0.3/ZyXEL modem combination.
UUCP won't run more than about 15 to 20 minutes before it drops the
connection.  It does this with either inbound or outbound traffic.
I'm using the stock ESIX asy driver with a port locked at 38400.

Does anyone have any ideas?
From: davidto@siesoft.co.uk (David Tollow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: VP/ix or Merge and CD-ROM
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:16:07 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

[ Article crossposted from biz.sco.opendesktop ]
[ Author was David Tollow ]
[ Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:10:26 GMT ]

I have a question about the support for CD-ROM under VP/ix or Merge.
What I want to achieve is to allow a number of users running DOS
sessions under VP/ix or Merge (preferably on serial terminals) to
simultaneously access the data on a CD-ROM drive.

My information on VP/ix and Merge is about two years out of date, but
I remember that VP/ix was good at supporting DOS on scan-code terminals
but had no CD-ROM support. I would have expected Merge by now to have
CD-ROM support, but it had lousy serial terminal support the last time
I looked.

If I was to use VP/ix I would rather not get into DDA drivers etc...

Can anyone help ?

thanks

Dave Tollow

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From: gheim@eng.auburn.edu (Greg Heim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Need 1 page from ISC Rel 3.2 manual
Date: 13 Aug 92 17:54:02 GMT
Organization: Alabama Department of Tourism (NOT!)


I am missing one page from my table of contents.  It is a minor
annoyance.  I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to 
fax me a copy or something.  You could save me from premature grey.

The missing page is (i) & (ii) under Maintenance Procedures in the
OS Guide Release 3.2.

Email me for the fax number or snail mail address.  That way I will
only have at most one person send it.

Thanks a bunch,

Greg



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From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: SCSI II
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:36:51 GMT
Organization: CompuData Inc.

wd@pcsbst.pcs.com (wd) writes:

>fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home) writes:

>>If I would like the fastest and meanest I/O combination between disk, tape
>>and controller, what does the combined net wisdom recommend for a SCO UNIX
>>environment?

>Check if your setup works before you buy it. We are  just  having
>trouble  getting  SCO  to install on (probably too fast HP-) SCSI
>disks.
>Wolfgang
>Company : PCS GmbH, Pfaelzer-Wald-Str. 36,  8000 Munich,  Germany.


Well, Wolfie, that's exactly what I'm doing here. Since there seems to be no 
real response, except for private email asking for any information I may get,
it would seem that it doesn't.

Perhaps open systems only go so far and no further. We are presently planning 
an installation of a 256 user Altos 15000 based upon Intel and SCO but with 
lots of fancy proprietary stuff underneath.  Until we actually see 150 or more
users running at the same time the whole thing remains a bit scary.

In theory lots of stuff works - but in real life - it's another ballgame.

Fred

-- 
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Beverly, NJ. 08010                          		Don Marquis 
609-386-6846    bang:uunet!cdin-1!icdi10!fr   
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.periphs.scsi
From: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com (Andy Finkenstadt)
Subject: Issuing SCSI commands to tape drive, ISC 3.0pl3, Adaptec aha1740
Reply-To: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com
Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:10:59 GMT

I can't seem to find anywhere in the documentation how to
read and write arbitrary SCSI commands with the Adaptec 1740
while running Interactive Unix 3.0 fix disk 3.

I want to somehow get at the SCSI tape drive and control it
for backup purposes... or at least to determine what in the
world is my problem.  Of course, now that I'm doing tests 
during the day, it's working fine! :(

-Andy

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: dave@copi.cmhnet.org (David Diller)
Subject: Anybody have SLIP and NFS on ISC Version 3.0
Keywords: SLIP,NFS,ISC
Organization: Coordinated Office Programs
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:34:51 GMT

I have not tried running NFS over SLIP yet, the problem is having SLIP 
configured on a system I'm trying to run NFS. (ISC 3.0 NFS 2.1 on a 486)
The problem I found was "RPC time out cannot register rexd" ...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If I have SLIP configured in netd.cf as:
sl0_ip  = "/dev/sl0" lsap 0x888 # stream for IP messages
link sl0_ip under ip_tcp name "sl0"
ifconfig "sl0" slzippy shorty up
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Then NFS will not work at all, it says the server is not running?
As I said I'm not trying to run NFS over SLIP.

If I comment the SLIP stuff out and reboot, NFS works fine.

Thanks,

-- 
David Diller            (dave@copi.cmhnet.org)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: resnicks@netcom.com (Steve Resnick)
Subject: Looking for NE2000 drivers for SVR4
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 23:40:51 GMT
Organization: What? Me organized? You should see my checkbook!

I have a couple of NE2000 compatible ethernet cards. My question is, are
there SVR4 (Esix) drivers available for these cards, and if so where? If
not are they compatible with another ethernet card which I can use a driver
for?


Anyone?

Bueller?

Anyone?



Thanx, in advance,
Steve

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From: nlane@well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane)
Subject: Re: What the 17" monitor reviews never tell you
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 05:21:23 GMT

>I get the same patterns on a NEC MultiSync II at 800x600, with any color
>that has red in it.  Just the way it goes, I guess.  Probably easier to
>see on a 17"
>  - Patrick Taylor
>
>    Ericsson Network Systems
>    exuptr@exu.ericsson.se                       

I have an IBM (aka Sony) 6091/016 monitor (the only HONEST vendor - saying
that their 17 is really a 16 in VIEWABLE area).  The tube is a trinitron and
is run at 1280x1024 (NOT on PC Unix by far, or on a PC at all).  However,
I have never seen a moire pattern on a trinitron tube - and I've dealt with
lots of them (mostly IBM's, from the 6091/016, 5081/016, 5081/019, 6091/019).
However, I do experience the pattern on non-Trinitron tubes, including
Tatung 15"'s and 19"'s, Max 15"'s, NEC (all brands and types on a variety
of platforms.)  It seems that the stipple background of X just loves
to create moires on anything but a Trinitron (though I don't like the
4x4 "grid" that is just barely visible on the trinitron - it is a thin,
thin line, two vertically and two horizontally - it is only apprent on
text that hits the line and not terribly obtrusive, but notable.)

-=Nathan Lane
Trico Title Company, Santa Barbara, CA
nlane@well.sf.ca.us
From: rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
Date: 23 Aug 92 11:06:57 GMT
Organization: SOW-VU, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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

-bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes:

->A machine running SunOS will be much less likely to "hang" than the 
->equivalent intel machine.  At least that has been my experience, but 

-Bull.  My Dell box runs and runs.  I remember running ISC (granted
-2.20 with their old 1.2 TCP release) and it hung.

-Try running Dell.  It runs and runs (right karl@ddsw1.msc.com).  My 
-machine never crashes (unless I go poking in the kernel -- which I haven't
-done in months).  It's not uncommon to have uptime here of 40-60 days -
-and then the only reason the machine is rebooted is if the power goes
-out (we don't have a UPS)..

-My machine doesn't hang.  Maybe yours does, but mine doesn't.

Dell SVR4 is probably the best Unix you can buy for a PC, but I think
SunOS is a by far a more complete operating system.

--
Ronald van der Pol
rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: SAS 2.0
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 13:29:54 GMT

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

>After literally months of back-and-forths on it, Locus has finally
>shipped a version of Merge that will run properly on ESIX 4.0.4. I
>forgot the exact release number but ESIX tech support has it.

I wonder if it is the same release that Dell has been shipping?

When it comes up it says "DOS Merge Version 2.2
Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992 Locus Computing"  

I must say from using Dell that having the ability to run DOS
programs under Unix at times has been real handy -- even though
I have another machine sitting here (which gets turned on maybe
once a month).  I have a couple of users who bring up Merge via
dialup lines to do "whatever" -- I never asked them exactly what
they do -- and as long as they don't screw anything up, quite
frankly I don't care.

I think ESIX could win more sales if they bundled their OS with
Merge, but then they would have to increase the price -- and they
would be close to what Dell offers (in price)...

Now, ESIX is sold on price.     
-- 
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keeper of the Gator                                  uucp: uunet!gator!larry
From: rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: how to write 525MB to Wangtek 525ES on Dell 2.1?
Date: 17 Aug 92 10:12:31 GMT
Organization: SOW-VU, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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

>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

Several people gave this answer. However, I have tried the following
script:

#! /bin/sh
TAPE=/dev/rmt/c0s0n
count=1
while dd if=/dev/zero of=$TAPE bs=1024k count=25 
do
	echo $count
	count=`expr $count + 1`
done

I used the Wangtek 5525ES tape drive and a DC6525 tape. The script
wrote 9 25MB files and 13 records of the 10th file. So about 238 MB
was written (with 9 FileMarks?). After a 'mt rewind' and a 'mt fsf 9'
the tape looks to be  positioned at the end of the media. So how much
is written to the tape, 250 MB or 525 MB?

--
Ronald van der Pol
rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.mail.uucp
From: rick@rei.com (Richard J. Barton)
Subject: Re: uucp on Consensys SVR4 (with or without FAS)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:53:35 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

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

>rick@rei2.uucp (Richard J. Barton) writes:

>>	Try setting the ttymon up correctly first.  Also, forget the
>>	uucico until you can successfully accomplish a simple cu to
>>	some other machine.  Don't run until you know you can walk.

>when using ttymon with the WB, do you lock the DTE speed to
>the modem at 19200 and allow the modem to "step down" or do you
>let the baud rate to the modem "float"

I use a Telebit WorldBlazer.  It has two speed settings, the DTE
speed which I lock at 19200, and then the modulation speed which
you may allow to autobaud, or lock it to the other modems speed
if you have an extra handy for testing.

-- 
rick
:-)
rick@rei.com [Plexus Software, A Division of Recognition Equipment Inc.]
uunet!barton!rick [Night]
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