HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Anyone interested in an intelligent serial board?
Date: 24 Dec 92 12:43:47 GMT
Organization: DarkTower Software
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Bob Amstadt (bob@amscons.amscons.com) wrote:
: So once I decided to do this, I thought that others might
: be interested in such a beast.  So, if you'd be interested
: in an intelligent multi-port serial board for the ISA bus,
: send me mail indicating your desired specifications for the
: board.  This should include number of ports, FIFO depth,
: and cost.  If I have enough interest, I'll go ahead and
: do the PC board.

There are them ol' breadboard ISA cards that you can wrap or
hardwire (solder).  They're like the experimenter's breadboards,
but the foil traces allow soldering and/or wrapping.  You just jumper
the traces as needed (I'm sure you know what I'm talking about).

I believe JDR Microdevices carries them, but if not I can look and
see where I last saw them.  This might be a good compromise between
cranking out a foil imprint and wrapping, and you can socket the
chips (which is handy in case replacement is necessary).

-Louis
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From: root@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca (Superuser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Is there any hope left?
Date: 30 Dec 92 16:57:14 GMT
Organization: RWSYS Exporter BBS system

messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
> 
> Motherboard     Micronics Gemini 486/33 w/16 MB of memory
> BIOS            Phoenix 80486 ROM BIOS Plus Version 0.10 G17-2
> Disk Controller SCSI Adaptec 1542B
> Disk            340 MB SCSI Maxtor
> Video           Oak 512 + VGA B&W monitor
> Keyboard        Northgate Omni Key 101
> 
Nice Hardware, I'm jealous. Sounds like you are having a most
terrible time of it.

The DDK manual provides some information on interpreting these
dumps. 

>    cr2=c399fce eax=ffc3a0d8 ebx=7 ecx=ffc3a0c8 edx=0 esi=ffc3a0c8
     ^^^^^^^^^^^
     program data in a user 
     process caused this problem.
>    edi=ffc3a0dc ebp=fffffc18 esp=fffffbe8 err #14 eip=ffc05c42 uesp=7
                                            ^^^^^^^
                                            Page fault.
>    cmd=     efl=11097 sigcode=#11 User Trap
     ^^^^^^^^           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     don't know         whoever caused this
     which program.     did a segmentation violation.
     I have not seen
     a blank command
     before. 

eax, ecx, esi, edi, ebp, esp and *eip* all point to the kernel stack.
uesp should point at user stack, because that's where the auto style
variables and passed values reside. The uesp points at program text,
where it definitely should not point, (unless the current process is
the loader).

The blank cmd= would make me wonder if there isn't a floppy drive
problem. I could imagine the installation script reading your floppy
when it suddenly draws a blank, believing that to be the name of
the program to run. 

I also wonder if your memory is able to keep up with your processor.
If you have one of those 'Turbo' switches, try slowing the machine
down. Try adding wait states in your bios setup.


> Does anyone have any ideas???  I am beginning to give up on Coherent.

Understandable.. But I encourage you to perservere. I hope you
will be able to tweak your configuartions a bit, and get fine
performance.

It is possible that you have misconfigured your scuzzy card. Maybe
you have it running in synchronous mode, or your translation mode
is not appropriate. Obviously, the irq, dma and io base are correct
or you'd get nothing at all in the way of files. 


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tony
> 
> 

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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Anyone interested in an intelligent serial board?
Date: 27 Dec 1992 11:34:46 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu


In article <1hk48oINNobc@life.ai.mit.edu> I wrote:
>
> Hopefully, in the spirit of 386BSD, [...]

Oops.  Wrong newsgroup.  B-)

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From: stephan@forthdv.rmt.sub.org (Stephan Forth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Distribution: world
Subject: Coh troff and Deskjet 500
Keywords: 
Summary: 
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Forthy at home
Date: Sun,  3 Jan 93 13:13:58 GMT


Hi networld,

does anybody has some expiriences with Coherents troff and the Deskjet 500?

All the output that it procudes has the wrong spaceing. Some letters are
printed over the other. That happens with all supplied fonts
(tr100bpn.usp, tr100ipn.usp, tr100rpn.usp)

Is anybody able to help me???

Thanks in advance  Stephan
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From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Distribution: world
Subject: Newsreader TRN 2.2 ported
Keywords: trn 2.2, newsreader, COHERENT
Summary: 
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Organization: Udo Munk's private BBS
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 16:58:23 GMT

Now for all who like to read news with rn:
I've ported the trn 2.2 newsreader to COHERENT 4.0. Trn 2.2 is the
well known rn 4.4 newsreader with thread support added.
To compile it you need bison 118 which is available from raven, MWCBBS
and my system. To run it GNU sed is recommended, posting news with Pnews
outputs an error message, because the pattern buffer of MWC's sed is
to small for one sed command line. You still could use MWC's sed and
ignore the error, the posting goes out, but ...
I've send a copy up to mwcbbs and raven, for European users it's
available from my system.
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From: kestas@lith.UUCP (Kestutis Sliupas)
Subject: Taylor UUCP article
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Date: 23 Dec 92 05:53:19 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Vacaville, CA

Hi:
	I just got the January issue of 'The C Users Journal', 
and saw an article by Ian Lance Taylor (of Taylor UUCP fame).
He writes about the uucp g protocol. Interesting article.
Worth reading.
				Regards, Kestas

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From: zjoc01@hou.amoco.com (Jack O. Coats)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Is there any hope left?
Date: 30 Dec 92 14:00:35 GMT
Reply-To: zjoc01@hou.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco

Speaking of memory diagnostics, where can I get a good one that will run under DOS?
DOS seems to be more tollerant (being less of an OS and more of a monitor) than Coherent, thus is probably better to use just to run diagnostics under.
From: ed@invid.mwc.com (Ed Bravo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP (was Re: 16550 support appears buggy)
Date: 23 Dec 92 13:28:49 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

>
> In article <66@colornet.com> dfilip@colornet.com writes:
> >That, BTW, is one of the concerns I have with UUCP and 4.1, which is rumored
> >to ship with Taylor. Although I have heard a lot of good things about Taylor,
> >Coherent's current UUCP kludge basically just runs itself, and I havn't
> >really had any problems.
>
> Maybe you haven't, but a lot of other people have.  Does "packets lost from
> the other side," ring a bell?  Plus, Taylor's version is so much more
> efficient.  You won't immediately know it's running, unlike with the base
> UUCP.
        For anyone with the problem of lost data packets from the other side,
a fix is on the MWCBBS called uusecure.tar.Z and should be attempted to download
before calling MWC for a copy.
                                        Ed    ed@mwc.com

>
> >I don't want to have to start worrying about UUCP
> >problems when I upgrade, and really DON'T want to have to worry about should
> >I install with HoneyDanBer config files and V7 log files, or BSD config files
> >and HoneyDanBer log files, or Taylor config files and ...
>
> You won't have to worry about which configuration you want.  Just pick one
> and stick to it.  And neither will new users of 4.1 because, MWC will have
> already chosen a config setup for them--Taylor's own, I imagine.
>
> Plus with the latest version, there is a program to convert HDB/BNU and V2
> config files into Taylor files.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pred Bundalo
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From: hcp@csx.cciw.ca (H.C. Pulley)
Subject: Re: Dual Boot
Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:56:10 GMT

In article <Bzz7on.371@trc.amoco.com> zjoc01@hou.amoco.com writes:
>I have a 486-50 and have both DOS and Coherent loaded.  I had to turn off the automatic boot of either partition because there was not enough 'wait' time before the default boot partition started comming up.
>
>Is there a way to put more of a delay in the dual boot so I could type in my 'prefered' partition?

Even on my 386-40, the time between the beep and the boot selection was too 
fast for me.  I have found, however, that I can press a key after the memory 
check but during the disk tests (2 floppy drives gives me more than enough time
to hit '4') and it will be taken.

Fast on the draw!

Harry

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From: a10@server.uwindsor.ca (FUERST.D                 )
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Matser Boot (Was: Re: Is there any hope left?)
Date: 29 Dec 1992 03:23:01 GMT
Organization: University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada

In article <1992Dec28.081714.20154@netcom.com> messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
>
>Well, just to add insult to injury, after I got rid of all the Coherent
>partitions, I noticed that suddenly my DOS started to lock up after running
>for about 5 minutes.  The only thing that has changed is the darned Master
>Boot remnant from Coherent.  I got so ticked off, I removed the whole DOS
>partition with 140 MB worth of files in it.  Guess what, Master Boot
>is still there.  I think I am going to scream.

I hate to rub salt in the wound, but if DOS is locking up too it sounds like 
you've got hardware (heat?) problems, not OS problems.  

                                                        Darren

Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: brianw@philips.oz.au (Brian Wallis)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 12:39:13 GMT
Organization: Philips Public Telecommunications Systems, Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Floating point: printf "%g" bug?

I've come across a possible anomally in the floating point output from printf
in Coherent 4.0. The program to demonstrate this is appended at the end. It
looks to me like a rounding error.

Here are the rusults of running the program on my system...


38 - (.13g)38 (.14g)38
39 - (.13g)39 (.14g)39
40 - (.13g)40 (.14g)40
41 - (.13g)41 (.14g)41.00000000000001
42 - (.13g)42 (.14g)42
43 - (.13g)43 (.14g)43
44 - (.13g)44 (.14g)44
45 - (.13g)45 (.14g)45
46 - (.13g)46 (.14g)46.00000000000001
47 - (.13g)47 (.14g)47
48 - (.13g)48 (.14g)48.00000000000001
49 - (.13g)49 (.14g)49
50 - (.13g)50 (.14g)50
51 - (.13g)51 (.14g)51.00000000000001
52 - (.13g)52 (.14g)52
53 - (.13g)53 (.14g)53.00000000000001
54 - (.13g)54 (.14g)54
55 - (.13g)55 (.14g)55
56 - (.13g)56 (.14g)56.00000000000001
57 - (.13g)57 (.14g)57
58 - (.13g)58 (.14g)58.00000000000001
59 - (.13g)59 (.14g)59

The extra ...0001 is causing problems in my port of perl. I may have to replace
printf and friends, but then again perhaps the problem is in the floating point
itself?

Any clues from anyone?

thanks, brian...


#include <stdio.h>

main(argc,argv)
  int argc;
  char *argv[];
{
  int i;

  for(i=38;i<60;i++){
    printf("%d - (.13g)%.13g (.14g)%.14g\n",i,(double)i,(double)i);
  }

}
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: tim@rcsl.demon.co.uk (Tim Frost)
Subject: Re: Timing less than 1 second 
Distribution: world
Organization: Roundhill Computer Systems Limited
Reply-To: tim@rcsl.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19)
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 10:28:49 +0000

In article <921220357@umunk.GUN.de> udo@umunk.GUN.de writes:

>Tim Frost (tim@rcsl.demon.co.uk) wrote:

>: solution I came up with was to pass poll() a valid pointer to an 
>: array of pollfd structures but tell it the number of structures is 
>: zero.  In this case poll() just waits for the passed number of 
>: milliseconds, which is what I need.
>: 
>: Does anyone know enough about poll() to know whether this trick
>: is safe?  Its behaviour is consistent with the documentation but
>: it is not really documented.
>
>I'm not sure if this is safe, a better way is give poll the number
>of structures one, with fd set to -1. 

Thanks, I agree that this sounds safer.  I will change to it.

>BTW, what is the PANEL Plus II screen manager?

PANEL Plus II consists of a screen layout designer and user interface 
manager which produces screens for C applications portable across DOS, 
Windows, OS/2, Unix (many flavours) and VMS.  It handles data entry and 
validation, menus and scrolling regions, etc.  The next release will have 
Coherent support in the included full library source.  I don't know yet 
whether we will make a "PANEL Plus II for Coherent".  The problem is that 
though our product is not really expensive ($495 per development user, no 
royalties) it appears to be expensive when compared to Coherent itself. We 
cannot produce a "cheap" Coherent version because this conflicts with our 
policy of making the price platform independent.  Do any other tools vendors 
have a view about this?

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From: shendrix@PCS.CNU.EDU (Charles Shannon Hendrix)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Coherent-Linux
Date: 29 Dec 92 01:14:14 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

>
>         Hello !
>
>         First of all, I LOVED Peter's AT&T saying (that one about the modems)
 !
>         Now I have some questions: as I started to use Linux too (but I found
> it less documented than COH, less finished, etc.), I have a problem with my
 key-
> board, as only (?) the US layout is supported. My keyboard has British layout,
> and I really need to have the right scheme for '#', '@', '|', etc (by the way,
> I fixed the bugs in COH's UK driver for both 3.2.0 and 4.0.1 versions; I'll be
> happy to send them if needed). Any suggestions ? Then, as I have NO FTP
 access,
> could anyone supply me a complete Linux forum email address ? I have some
 ques-
> tions for the boys downthere... (I think comp.os.linux is not complete for
 me).
        Send an empty mail message to....

 linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi

        ...and you will get a reply that details how to subscribe to the
linux-activists list and its various channels (X11, kernel, sound, etc.).

I don't have news on my system so I just get this one via Internet and most
of the people working on Linux are there anyway...

Later...

Csh




>
>         Lots of thanks in advance !
>
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: van@teal.csn.org (Claude W. Van Horn)
Subject: Re: Is there any hope left?
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 06:11:30 GMT

messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
: 
: I mailed the info below to MWC Support, but maybe someone else will be
: able to give me some advice (I really hope I am overlooking
: something).  I have been rather unlucky in the installation and usage
: of Coherent so far, which I blamed on the flaky hardware.  So, I just
: purchased a new computer, especially to run COH on it.  Here are the
: specs:
: 
: Motherboard     Micronics Gemini 486/33 w/16 MB of memory
: BIOS            Phoenix 80486 ROM BIOS Plus Version 0.10 G17-2
: Disk Controller SCSI Adaptec 1542B
: Disk            340 MB SCSI Maxtor
: Video           Oak 512 + VGA B&W monitor
: Keyboard        Northgate Omni Key 101
: 
I had no problem with the instalation on my 386, sounds like you have a 
SCSI problem.  I don't have my manual and instalation guide with me, but 
check the limitations of the SCSI adapters.  All else looks fine.

Van!!
(it's worth the wait!)

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From: sclaus@workshop.north.pole (Santa Claus)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Software Request
Date: 25 Dec 92 08:44:59 GMT
Organization: Santa's Workshop
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Mike Tarrant (mtarrant@ATK.COM) wrote:
: Dear Santa,
:   I would like an ANSI C compiler so I can do the homework for my
: Advanced C Programming class, next term, under Coherent.
:   I have been a good boy.
:                  -Mike   (mtarrant@atk.com)
: 
:

Dear Mike,
GCC will be out soon.  Then you will have an ANSI and a C++ compiler.
Maybe not in time for Christmas, but hopefully soon.  My elves want
it too!

                -Santa (sclaus@workshop.north.pole) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: kvr@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Kerst V. Raden)
Subject: Help needed: COHERENT 4.0 won't boot
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:39:08 GMT


Hello, COHERENT wizards

sorry if the following problem has already been tackled in previous
postings or an faq. I just purchased COHERENT 4.0 and have to decide
quickly if I will keep or return it.

My problem is as follows:
When I try to boot from disk #1, I get the boot prompt, and type
"begin". Then I get the messages

Loading COHERENT.

Loading COHERENT data.

Please wait...

There are several seconds of floppy disk activity, then the cursor
jumps to the upper left corner of the screen and the system is dead
with the floppy light still on.

I have tried the obvious things like changing wait states, bus speed
etc. but to no avail. If upper memory relocation is switched off "5a"
is written to the upper right corner of the screen before the system
dies. All other changes in the setup had no effact at all.

Has anybody else experienced and successfully overcome this problem?
Any help is **VERY** much appreciated. I would like to join the COHERENT
user community soon.

My system has the following configuration:

Motherboard with AMD 386DX/DXL, 40 MHz, 4MB RAM, Symphony chipset,
AMI BIOS
GENOA VGA with Tseng ET 4000 chipset and 1 MB RAM
IBM 8503 monochrome monitor
Multi I/O board (com1, com2, lpt1, fd, hd) with Inboard W83757F chip
Seagate ST3144A hard disk
3,5" floppy
Cherry MF2 keyboard

My COHERENT is V 4.0.1A.

BTW: I have SCO UNIX V3.2 running on a machine with the same configuration
for several months without problems. I tried the emergency boot disks
on this machine and got SCO up. I also ran several tests with CHECKIT
without error reports.

Thanks in advance

Kerst

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From: kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Modemcap settings for ZyXEL 1496E+ wanted
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 20:56:28 MET
Organization: The Blues Family

Hi there!

I'm looking for the Modemcap-entry good for a ZyXEL 1496E+.
Currently I do only have a 16450 UART, so I guess more than
19200 bps is impossible. If I remember it well, this wasn't
covered by the Coherent FAQ. BTW: I'm running Coherent 4.0.1.

Please answer by mail, I'll summarize.

        Kosta


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