HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tpa10@ccc.amdahl.com (Thomas P. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: OS/2 files to Coherent using HPFS?
Keywords: cohernt os/2 hpfs
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:46:01 GMT
Reply-To: tpa10@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Thomas P. Anderson)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <108@colornet.UUCP> dfilip@colornet.UUCP writes:
>Thomas P. Anderson writes :
>
 ....lots deleted...
>>   EXCEPT THAT Coh 3.2 CAN'T DEAL WITH DOS 5.0'sFILE SYSTEM!!
>>            (that's another hint for MWC).
>
>I am not sure what you mean by this ? Coherent 3.2 can copy files to and from
>a DOS 5.0 filesystem. ... more deleted.
>Regards,
>
>Dave.
My point was that the version of Coherent I was running (3.2.0U) could NOT
access DOS 5.0's file system.  I have since found out that a later version
COULD access DOS 5.0 file systems.

I also ASS*U*ME*D that the original poster wanted to have complete system
wide access to his data and using the FAT system seemed the best way to
achieve that.

You are, of course, right about the ability to install the HPFS on the
extended DOS partition.  I must have been having a petite mal while
reading the OS/2 install doc.
Tom A.
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: batchelor@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Batchelor, NSSDC, 301-286-2988)
Subject: Upgrading to 4.0.1
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords:  dos*
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:39:00 GMT

I received my upgrade disks for v4.0.1 a week and a half ago, and exercised
them right away.  The 2nd disk was not a clone of the 1st (a problem oft
reported in this news group).  I upgraded from v3.2.1 with no apparent
problems.  When I was asked whether to expand the man pages or leave them
compressed, I chose to expand, and ignored the i-node warnings as the
installation instructed me to do.  When I got into multiuser mode, the only
problem I encountered was that on first attempt, the command man was not
found.  This was puzzling, but when I tried it again later, it worked!

There were a couple of curious minor undocumented complications:
The new "script" command, which logs terminal output to a file, does not seem
to completely implement its functions in the Release notes.  I called MWC, and
they tried it out, trying to log to a filename given as in "script -l foo ls"
and that didn't work.  Simply typing "script ls" alone worked, and the output
appeared in a default-named file.

Another minor complication: the dos* set of new commands worked on diskette
drives A: and B: but said they were unable to open /dev/at0a .  For instance
I tried "dosdir c:/" and got the "can't open..." message.  I had already
modified /etc/default/msdos to define the C: drive alias, as the COHERENT
manual directs.  Before I phoned MWC, I checked whether the Superuser could
access C: and voila!  So with this info, I called MWC, and was told the fix:
login as root, chmod 666 /at0a
This is not toooo mysterious in hindsight, but for the novice, not obvious in
foresight...;-)

Everything else is the usual *nix sort of fun, if that's not too strong a
word.  Thanks MWC for a great product.  I look forward to those SVGA graphics
library functions that I hope you are crafting!


Dave Batchelor  Space Science Data Operations Office  Mail Code 632
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Greenbelt  MD  20771  USA
batchelor@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
From: GREGL@DELPHI.COM (Greg Law)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: My previous reply
Date: 4 Sep 92 00:51:08 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

Oops! I must apologize for my previously reply if you guys see it
intermixed with carriage return/linefeed pairs. I just installed
Procomm Plus for Windows and am using it for the first time, and
all of my quoting and message editing is via Notepad. Looks like
I need to figure out how to get Procomm to strip the blasted linefeeds
from pasted text. Again, I apologize for the goof. . . or perhaps
I should just go back to Crosstalk.

	-- Greg
From: a10@server.uwindsor.ca (FUERST.D                 )
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: coh 4.0.1 / keyboards
Date: 1 Sep 1992 01:04:30 GMT
Organization: University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada

I'm using a BTC 7000 series keyboard.  That's about as cheap as they come 
(sorta feels like a Compaq keybaord, if that helps).  Works fine with 4.0.

                                                 Darren Fuerst
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Best news systems & readers enquiry
Date: 29 Aug 92 20:41:50 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats

In article <1992Aug28.104937.3718@spcvxb.spc.edu> mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
>kilroy@acme.gen.nz wrote:
> 
>>As far as what software, I'd recommend the current Coherent-ported release of
>>C News, in terms of robustness and reliability I've found it to be excellent.
>>We could possibily consider the recent C News performance release if
>>someone's ported it to 3.2. Most of it works fine, we'd just need to fine
>>tune some of the scripts to fix some nagging incompatibilities (I won't call
>>them bugs, Geoff Collyer might be reading this and they're not C News'
>>fault). I've been running C News happily for some months now, and I'll help
>>out on any work needed to get scripts working reliably.
> 
>This is completely contradictory to my experience with the Coherent
>"port" of cnews.  I followed the directions to the letter and it simply
>does not work.  I challenge anyone to try to run that cnews port
>according to the installation instructions.  Perhaps it is workable
>if you are an experienced programmer and you do a bit of hacking at
>installation time, but unfortunately I am not proficient enough to
>do that.

What problems are you having?  Saying that "it simply does not work"
is not enough information.

Are you using the cnews sources from raven?  Those sources have a better
installation script than the ones on mwcbbs.

Originally, when Esa Ahola and myself were fooling with cnews, we were
going to send it to mwcbbs "as-is", after I had installed his changes
to the code on my machine and tested them.  Rick Nickle decided to write
an installation script and a set of instructions.  The instructions are
about as easy as it gets.

>If there is something I am missing, and the cnews port can indeed
>be installed with few hassles, I'd love to hear from you.
> 
>Re: cnews performance release
> 
>Wouldn't it make more sense to port this to Coh 4.0 than try to
>hack the old cnews to work?


I have the cnews performance sources here, and I will be porting them
fairly soon.  However, I will simply make the changes necessary to make
it compile and run under 4.0, and then send the sources to mwcbbs.

I'm still running my cnews binaries that I built when I was running 3.1.0.
They run fine with 4.0.

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
From: antoonm@RELAY.NLUUG.NL
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: (re) configure ELM
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:39:00 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

I am trying to reconfigure (recompile) the ELM package for my system.
At the end of the script it says that it cannot find 'config.h.SH'.

Is it true that it is not in the ELM package as posted on MWC ?

Also I have errors in the 'tmac.n' file.

Can somebody send them to  me ??

best regards,

antoon milatz

uucp : sun4nl!tekeur!antoonm
Xref: sparky comp.os.coherent:4091 comp.mail.uucp:1717
From: wayned.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Source for FTP available?
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:50:33 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

I got my answer and got FTP running SLIP on Coherent with the ka9q 
package from Randy Wright.  Please, let's kill this thread.  Somebody 
decided to cross post this thread, so let's just drop it. Please.

+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| Wayne Desmond                     | Happily using and working (read:  |
| OS/2 Consultant/Programmer        | earning a GOOD living) with       |
| (wayned.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu) | OS/2, since version 1.1.          |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
From: pechter@ocpt.ccur.com (Bill Pechter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Porting nn 6.4.16
Date: 30 Aug 92 15:45:32 GMT
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp.,Information Services

In article <92082919382@umunk.GUN.de> udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
>Hm, I've ported 6.4.16 to Coherent 4.0 and send it to MWC. There should
>really someone get it from there and ftp it to raven. 

Consider me a volunteer to send all received stuff to raven. I've got ftp 
access and a dos box at work.  I can handle either MS-DOS 1.2mb or 360k
disks or email...

Bill

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From: deutschm@lucky.lion.de (Carsten Deutschmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: German FTP-site carrying Coh-ware ?
Date: 26 Aug 92 09:04:45 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

> Hi folks,
Hi Oliver,
> are ther any FTP-sites in Germany carrying PD for Coherent ?
> If so, could some1 please mail me the addresses ?

Have U got any responses to Your request? If there are, could U please
email me?

AtDhVaAnNkCsE  <- this is Thanks in Advance...

Bye, Carsten
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From: UUXQT.V3.2.23@UUNET.UU.NET
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: UUXQT remote execution status
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:28:55 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

Command "rmail jay " failed.
	Status 17664 (0x4500)
Reason: Exit status not zero
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: pred@iitmax.iit.edu (Predrag S. Bundalo)
Subject: Re: mail
Organization: IIT--Institute of Increasing Tuition.
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 06:18:01 GMT

In article <Btr5Ct.MqB@csn.org> tbuck@teal.csn.org (Timothy E. Buchanan) writes:
>My mail is coming in when I poll my host, but not going out. I 
>think I know why, but not how to fix it.
> 
>I want all mail to be delivered to my smart-host to be placed on 
>the net, so /usr/lib/mail/paths is
> 
>tbucks.com %s 0
>smart-host csn!%s 0
> 
>I used the command mail tbuck@csn.org and generated these files in 
>/usr/spool/uucp/csn
> 
[ . . . ]

Make this your paths file:

.csn.org	%s	0
.tbucks.com	%s	0
csn	csn!%s	0
csn.org	%s	0
smart-host	csn!%s	0
tbucks	%s	0
tbucks.com	%s	0

Note: the order of the sites above is very important--it simply must be
sorted in ASCII order.

Regards,

Pred Bundalo
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From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: using coherent to dial out
Date: 29 Aug 92 23:23:09 GMT
Organization: umunk (private)
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Bret.Johnson@p1.f1110.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Bret Johnson) writes:
: Udo Munk of 1:226/20 wrote to All of 1:226/20
:    I showed up on MWCBBS on Friday.  I got it but, am having trouble
:    compiling it. Errors in the IPC file.  
: 
:    I am still at 3.2.1A..

The problem is that I only have one system running 4.0 now. Please
let me know the error output of the 3.2 compiler. Errors in the IPC file
is not much helpfull :-)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Subject: Re: Clone keyboard works...
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 08:12:06 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Richard Clemens writes:

> My Micro Express Maxi Touch keyboard is just dandy...

My Chicony isn't! But they warn about that one in the release notes.

						- k
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"Jub'f Xvob?"
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: pred@iitmax.iit.edu (Predrag S. Bundalo)
Subject: Elm Organization (was Re: Trying to port new cnews (performance ...))
Organization: IIT--Institute of Increasing Tuition.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 22:08:51 GMT

[Greg Law explains local and remote sigs with elm.]
>to all of the options. I'm not sure how to specify the organization, and
>I don't see it mentioned in the documentation files.
>
>	-- Greg

It uses the environmental variable ORGANIZATION.  Just set it to a string.

Note: this will override your news system's default organization for any
user that specifies an organization this way.

Regards,

Pred Bundalo
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From: root@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz - SysGod)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Wnews on Coh 4.0
Date: 30 Aug 92 14:00:05 GMT
Organization: Ritz International, Inc.

Hello,

After giving up on cnews, I am trying to get wnews to work.  I
took the wnews 3.0 package from Raven, but when I type
"make", I get:

ld: file 'libndir.a' : Cannot Open

and the makefile exits with an error.  How do I fix this?

Cheers,

Chris

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root%ritz.mordor.com@spcvxa.spc.edu   | And I can't be holding on...
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From: chris@engineer.mrg.uswest.com (Chris Fedde)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Copying files to floppy disks
Date: 2 Sep 92 07:41:03 GMT
Organization: USWEST Marketing Resources

In article <2852@monarch.array.com> mike@array.com (Mike Willett) writes:
>	cat file3 file2 file1 file >> file2
>
>	Will cat the files onto the end of file2 in the order that
>	they were put on the command line.  file3 will be put on the
>	end of file2, file2 will be put on the end of the original file2,
>	doubling in size, file1 will be put on the end of file2, and file
>	will be put on the end of file2.  Right?  Wrong.  Cat should be
>	smart enough to tell you file2 is input and output, and exit().
>	The line should be "cat file3 file2 file1 file > file4".
>

Here are my test files.
	$ cat f1
	blurfl
	$ cat f2
	meow
	$ cat f3
	little mice eater
	$ cat f4
	kitty parts

Note that f2 appears twice!
	$ cat f1 f2 f3 f4 >> f2
	$ cat f2
	meow
	blurfl
	meow
	little mice eater
	kitty parts

Note that f2 is empty!
	$ cat f1 f2 f3 f4 > f2
	$ cat f2
	blurfl
	little mice eater
	kitty parts

Note that each file is included
	$ cat f1 f2 f3 f4 > f5
	$ cat f5
	blurfl
	meow
	little mice eater
	kitty parts
	
Any questions?
 
Chris Fedde, USWEST MRG, chris@mrg.uswest.com, voice 3037842823
From: clemens@ms.uky.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: uucico bombs to mwcbbs
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:56:44 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

During the last two weeks my cron to mwcbbs has bombed twice just after it
Disabled the tty line.  I havn't changed a thing since I first setup the
link and it works just dandy 98% of the time.  On these two occasions
it has shuts down the tty line to other logins as well.  I have my cron
set to call mwcbbs once each day in the wee hours of the morning and have
automatically moved several files without a problem.  Another system that
polls my machine with incoming email has worked without flaw for several
weeks and has transfered lots of goodies without fail.

The mwcbbs is the only machine I try to dail out via cron.

Ideas?


Richard Clemens    Associate Professor of Business and Computer Science
                   West Virginia Wesleyan College
                   Buckhannon, WV  26201  (304) 473-8480
                   acpwvw!auxrcc!clemens@ms.uky.edu
From: bob@dalek.mwc.com (Bob Hemedinger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Coh 4.0.1 crontab problems
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:14:52 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

>
> roger@neptons.UUCP (Roger Barth) writes:
> : I successfully upgraded to Coherent 4.0.1!!
> :
> : Now I would like to convert my old /usr/lib/crontab to use the new
> : /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/.., but whenever I move the items for root
> : uucp to execute from the old /usr/lib/crontab to the new directory,
> : they stop working.
> :
> : This has gotten to be a pain since I have upgraded GNEWS and compiled
> : it under 4.0.1 to be 386 executables, so the old 'besomeone' of 286
> : vintage does not exist in the new crontab structure.
> [ deleted stuff looks fine ]

Did you create a cron.allow file which lists user 'news'?

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From: karl@dadoka.h.ni.schule.de (Karl Sarnow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Problem TIN-EMACS
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 13:48:53 EDT
Organization: Karls Emergency Mailbox

I just managed to install Wnews and Tin. So far it seems to work. But as I hate
the ed-editor, I set a link to micro-emacs. When I posted a message,
two screens appeared. One with the header, the other empty. REagrdless
what I type into both screens, after saving with CTRL-Z only the
header is displayed in the posted message. Any idea? 

Karl

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From: sidney@picard.med.ge.com (Bill Sidney MPE 4-6324)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Raven to carry new MWCBBS files
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:16:50 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

What a great service, Thanks to all who have made this happen.

-=Sid=-
From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: infamous 386AMI ctrl-alt-del from DOS thing
Date: 29 Aug 92 23:22:38 GMT
Organization: umunk (private)
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

pred@iitmax.iit.edu (Predrag S. Bundalo) writes:
: In article <1992Aug22.131440.12993@csx.cciw.ca> hcp@csx.cciw.ca (H.C. Pulley) writes:
: >I upgraded my motherboard from 286-12 to 386-40 last night without any problems
: >except that I now get the infamous AMI 386 BIOS problem: when I leave DOS with
: >a ctrl-alt-del instead of a RESET, Coherent isn't very happy.
: >
: >I am just wondering: has 4.0 fixed this problem?  I will be ordering shortly
: >and I haven't seen any mention of that problem going away with the upgrade.
: 
: It's a problem with AMI, not COHERENT.  But, no, the problem persists in
: v4.0.  I.e. they haven't found a work-around especially for AMI.
: 
: I'm using a 486/33 with AMI.  Blah.
: 
: The only difference--AMI wise--is that COHERENT v4.0 does a cold reboot
: when you use ctrl-alt-del.

Yep, that's the work-around :-)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: libndir
From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
Date: 30 Aug 92 02:47:33 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Wolery

kranitz@mr.med.ge.com (Wes Kranitz 4-6857 MRCE) writes:
> Yes, there are some bugs in the directory functions. I posted some fixes here
> a while back that seemed to strighten out some of the problems. Maybe MWC made
> similar fixes before adding them. 

Can you repost the changes (or at least mail 'em to me)?  I just worked 
around the bug in Tass by not using the libndir routines, since there is
only one place where they are used.

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From: karl@dadoka.h.ni.schule.de (Karl Sarnow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: mail & uucp security
Date: 30 Aug 92 17:28:22 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
Organization: Karls Emergency Mailbox

bob@dalek.mwc.com (Bob Hemedinger) writes:

.....

>
> This archive has actually been available for about a week, but was updated
> again yesterday when we finally tracked another commonly reported bug. Many
> 4.0 users reported that uucico was delivering files with weird permissions
> set. The bug has been caught and exterminated, with the updated uucico
> being placed in uusecure.tar.Z.
>
Bob. it is VERY expensive for me to get these files over telephone lines
from MWCBBS. So I would like to know if the file is available in Germany?
If not, could you upload it and send it to CompuServe or at least send it
to my CompuServe adress below? I can access a CompuServe node in Hamburg
at 9600 Baud MNP5 V32bis. So downloading that archive via CompuServe is
propably much cheaper than phoning the US. I suppose you won't send me a
disk? I am really interested in not heaving all mail and uucp-scripts open
to read for everyone. Anyway I'll send you my private mail adress:

Dr. Karl Sarnow
Wittenberger STr. 82
3000 Hannover 1
Germany

Thanks
Karl

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From: sjsobol@tiny.com ("Steven J. Sobol")
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Best news systems & readers enquiry
Date: 29 Aug 92 01:12:42 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

In article <9208261001.AA05147@dalek.mwc.com> you write:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I don't wish to start a war but I would be grateful for opinions concerning
>> the most desirable news systems and news readers which are relatively
>> easy to configure and run with Coherent 3.2; I'm saving up for a \486.
>>
>
>A personal 2 cents worth:
>
>If a general consensus can be reached in comp.os.coherent about what the
>prefered news package combo is, or perhaps a couple of prefered news
>configurations, it would hopefully be a simple matter to create some
>diskettes users can install with the /etc/install command to automatically

I have wnews and rn working, finally, more or less. There are a couple
features that don't work, and I don't plan on fixing them (notably,
of 'Send, Abort, Edit or List', only the first two options work).

Other than that everything seems okay.